In Mississippi, women who are incarcerated are working at Popeye’s for less than minimum wage and even being “hired” out TO INDIVIDUALS to do housework, yardwork, etc.
— Jerrick White (@BostonJerry) February 2, 2024
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME pic.twitter.com/xFzyrXKmsR
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The report ends with this anecdote. Reporters followed a van that took Black prisoners to a former slave plantation that’s now a tourist attraction w a hotel/restaurant.
— Jerrick White (@BostonJerry) February 2, 2024
They were there to work at the restaurant washing dishes.
Slave labor, on a plantation, in the 2020s. pic.twitter.com/W63Pjl7Rn5
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A two-year AP investigation found that goods linked to prison labor wind up in the supply chains of major food brands, from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour and Coca-Cola. The practice has morphed into a massive multibillion-dollar empire. pic.twitter.com/j5QyV6NCBr
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 12, 2024
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The 13th Amendment allows incarcerated people to be used as free and forced labor. And now U.S. prison labor has morphed into a multibillion-dollar empire.
— Innocence Project (@innocence) February 9, 2024
Many of our clients have endured this reality while major corporations profited off of their work.https://t.co/iOhgj7jnsJ
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Louisiana is back in the news… for forced prison labor https://t.co/tTfGkJPErG
— Matthew Wollenweber (@MWollenweber) February 5, 2024