Prisons
‘Sing Sing’ sings out for justice, clemency, rehabilitation, humanity
August 14, 2024The new 105-minute film Sing Sing is about life inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility, perhaps the most infamous maximum security prison in America, perhaps the world.
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Free Alabama Movement fights to abolish prison slavery
June 17, 2024Abolition activists rally at the prison gates to end corporate profiteering from inmate labor.
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Prisoners in the U.S. are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
January 31, 2024A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.
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Is slavery back in Alabama?
December 20, 2023For private businesses, prison labor is like a pot of gold. No strikes. No union organizing. No health benefits, unemployment insurance, or workers’ compensation to pay.
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In prisons across America, our people suffer in hot concrete tombs
July 25, 2023At Angola Prison in Louisiana an inmate describes his torment in an airless 100 degree tomb.
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