Although prison industry jobs make up a relatively small portion of the incarcerated workforce today, they are deeply integrated into many supply chains. State-owned prison industries operate in ...

Many of these goods came from large operations in the South, though almost every state has some sort of agriculture program. Reporters also found prison labor in the supply chains of giants like ...

Subscribe to future newsletters here. If you’ve shopped at Walmart, Target, Costco, Whole Foods or many other large grocery chains recently, there’s a chance you purchased food produced by prison ...

The lawsuit alleges the prison system makes money by deducting ... a system that followed slavery in the South. Prisoners, many of whom were Black and had been arrested for violations of Jim ...

Behind bars, I saw too many people awaiting trial who couldn’t afford bail – while rich people went home. New Year’s In Jail: Innocent But Poor My first Christmas in jail was in 1996.

Interviews with 17 people who work with him said Chippewa County Jail Captain Ernan De La Rosa told employees to take their complaints to underlings, repeatedly failed to get inmates to courtrooms ...