The practice of profiting from prison labor, both inside prisons and outside for private industries is complex and fraught.

Explain what you know about their situation right now. KERI BLAKINGER: Well, as you mentioned, the pay sounds low, but this ...

Despite producing billions of dollars in value for the benefit of prisons and the private sector, incarcerated workers have almost no labor rights and are paid very little—if they are paid at all—for ...

Private prison company GEO Group has been accused by the National Labor Relations Board of retaliating against immigrant ...

In a moment that crystallized the complexities of America's criminal justice system, John Legend's recent visit to California ...

"Prison labor that is not properly compensated, whether that is rescuing a community from a fire or manufacturing goods in a ...

Inmates become firefighters for the chance to cut time off their sentences, to get outside the prison walls and for training ...

The prison population in the Northern Territory has skyrocketed to more than 2,600 this month following the imposition of the ...

According to the Caddo Parish District Attorney's Office, between 2021 and 2024, Metcalf touched the genitals of a different ...

California voters rejected Proposition 6, the “End Slavery in California Act,” which would have ended forced labor in state ...

Private prison company GEO Group has been accused by the National Labor Relations Board of retaliating against immigrant detainees who protested working conditions inside a California facility.