I have a piece in the New York Times on the prison strike and the historical context of white coercion of black labor that has never ended. The Civil War.
Just last week, I profiled the 1978 Ellis Prison strike against their exploitation by the state that forced them to pick cotton on state-owned prison farms for no wages. They.
On July 20, 1891, militia forces guarding a stockade at a mine near Briceville, Tennessee surrendered to miners during Coal Creek War to keep convict laborers from competing with free.
I don't see how we in this nation can claim that slavery no longer exists. Because a state with 140,000 prisoners is forcing them to work for free without the.
There's no good argument to be made that the United States can't get a handle on the global exploitation of labor by placing bans on products made under certain conditions.
Michelle Alexander has called the prison system The New Jim Crow for how it replicates the racial discrimination of the past. That's only part of it though becuase a racist.
Prison labor not only takes jobs away from non-prisoners who earn wages, but it is a corrupt system that does not save the state money, as the Seattle Times reports..
The California Attorney General's office opposed the release of inmates because the state wanted to use them as cheap firefighter labor. Last week, the Los Angeles Times reported that attorneys.
