I consider most of the criticism lobbed at prison labor — that it’s a form of slavery, a capitalist horror show — unfair, and even counterproductive in the effort to reform the justice system.

Most prison workers surveyed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics — 70 percent — said the most important reason for working is to develop skills that they can use to build careers after release, but ...

As a lawsuit tries to stop a forced prison labor program, a beer distributor is defending its own participation.

California senators have advanced a bill that includes provisions to ratify a labor agreement ending random drug tests for ...

Prison rights advocates say this exception allows for forced labor in prisons. The unexpected part of Lilgerose's story isn't so much what he experienced, but where he experienced it.

More than a century later, our prison labor system has only grown. We now incarcerate more than 2.2 million people, with the largest prison population in the world, and the second highest ...

Prison labor is about as uneven an exchange as one could imagine. It also sends a damaging message to inmates — that they deserve to be desperate. Devaluing your life is a loyal lesson.

The prison industrial complex thrives off of cyclical imprisonment. Across the country, prisoners are working up to 12 hours a day while earning less than $1 an hour for their labor. By law, this is ...

Prison labor system was historically tied to slavery. After slavery was abolished in 1865, Southern states instituted a series of oppressive laws called “Black Codes” that restricted Black ...

This Prison Industries Act as printed in ALEC’s 1995 state legislation sourcebook, “provides for the employment of inmate labor in state correctional institutions and in the private ...

Prison labor is enshrined in the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which banned slavery and involuntary servitude – except for those convicted of a crime.

So the only stories you will ever hear from inmates about prison labor tend to be good ones, vetted by the companies or authorities involved.” (None of the 11 inmates interviewed by The New York ...