Penal labor in the United States is the practice of using incarcerated individuals to perform various types of work, either for government-run or private industries. Inmates typically engage in tasks such as manufacturing goods, providing services, or working in maintenance roles within prisons.

2025年1月27日 · Alabama was one of four states that banned forced prison labor in 2022. Still, a federal lawsuit arguing that forced prison labor in Alabama has been rendered unconstitutional was dismissed in mid-2024 under the logic that workers in Alabama’s prisons are performing “mandatory chores” rather than forced labor.

2024年1月29日 · Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two-year AP investigation into prison labor that tied hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of agricultural products to goods sold on the open market.

2022年6月16日 · Incarcerated workers in the U.S. generate billions of dollars worth of goods and services while toiling under unjust conditions, according to a new report from the University of Chicago Law School’s Global Human Rights Clinic and the American Civil Liberties Union.

2024年5月16日 · A sweeping Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers.

An Associated Press investigation into prison labor in the United States found that prisoners who are hurt or killed on the job are often being denied the rights and protections offered to other American workers.

2022年6月15日 · The first-of-its-kind report, Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers, examines the use of prison labor throughout state and federal prisons in the U.S. and highlights how incarcerated workers’ labor helps maintain prisons and provides vital public services.

2022年6月15日 · We examined the injustices of prison labor nationwide — and lay the foundation for a more equitable path forward. Our nation incarcerates more than 1.2 million people in state and federal prisons, and two out of three of these incarcerated people are also workers.