Futurism reported that the Prison Legal News findings resurfaced as Taylor Farms came under fresh scrutiny over the latest ...

According to a 2022 report, companies — including Taylor Farms — used a legal loophole for cheap labor from incarcerated ...

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This lettuce issue needs a dressing.

From license plates to furniture and clothing, states use forced prison labor to make a range of products that government institutions are then required to purchase by law. Across Maryland’s prison ...

Colorado voters passed Amendment A, a ballot measure touted as an end to slavery in state prisons in 2018. The amendment eliminated the penal exception clause, which allowed the state to use forced ...

In the nightmare, Chadarius Morehead is in the field at Louisiana State Penitentiary, the prison better known as Angola. It is dark. He sees an armed prison guard, who orders him to bend down and pick ...

Incarcerated people in the US are routinely forced to work for low pay or no pay, while state governments are saving billions of dollars—and private corporations are making billions of ...

Proposition 6, the ballot measure that would have amended the California Constitution to prohibit involuntary servitude in prison, failed. That’s troubling. Do voters really believe forced prison ...