Prisons
Free Alabama Movement fights to abolish prison slavery
June 17, 2024Abolition activists rally at the prison gates to end corporate profiteering from inmate labor.
Read morePrisoners 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.
Read moreIs 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.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreSacrifices for capital: The millions who vanish into the abyss of mass incarceration
May 8, 2023New book shows how the disappearance of millions of people deemed obstacles to capital accumulation enables the intensification of exploitation.
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