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New York City
fromHoodline
2 weeks ago

Inside Rikers Kitchen Where Chefs Feed New York's Detainees

Rikers Island's kitchen produces 7 million meals annually under extreme security measures, with detained workers earning $1.45 per hour while per-meal costs reach approximately $9.
fromVulture
1 month ago

We Don't Get Movies Like The Weight Much Anymore

After they're evicted without warning, hard-working widower Samuel Murphy (Hawke) and his young daughter, Penny (Avy Berry), are accosted by cops while trying to find a new place. Penny is taken away, and Murphy winds up at a prisoner work camp led by the baseball-loving, vaguely sadistic warden Clancy (Russell Crowe). Murphy, a gifted mechanic and a veteran of the Great War, immediately stands out to Clancy as a tough-minded, industrious guy.
Film
Social justice
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 months ago

Tailors and corner stores: The hustles helping prisoners survive

Prisoners at New Jersey State Prison survive through a second economy while earning pennies from prison labor and facing exorbitant commissary markups.
fromAnOther
3 months ago

Danny Lyon's Groundbreaking Portrait of American Crime and Punishment

In a penal system that legalises slavery, who is the real criminal? That question lies at the heart of Danny Lyon's landmark 1971 monograph, Conversations with the Dead, a masterwork of New Journalism chronicling crime and punishment in the United States. After his work in the Civil Rights Movement and with the Chicago Outlaws motorcycle club , Lyon gained unprecedented access to seven penitentiaries inside the Texas Department of Corrections over 14 months in 1967-68 to create a Dostoevskyian journey into the belly of the beast.
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fromSan Jose Spotlight
3 months ago
Social justice

Cantrell: From childhood to chains - San Jose's school to prison pipeline - San Jose Spotlight

San Jose’s progressive image contrasts with ongoing reliance on prison labor rooted in post‑Civil War criminalization and enabled by the 13th Amendment exception.
fromstupidDOPE | Est. 2008
9 months ago
Black Lives Matter

From Chains to Change: The Fight to Finally End Slavery in the U.S. #EndTheException | stupidDOPE | Est. 2008

Modern slavery persists in the U.S. through prison labor due to a loophole in the 13th Amendment.
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US news
fromwww.npr.org
4 months ago

A new experiment in remote work from the inside

People incarcerated in Maine prisons can work remotely from their cells for outside employers at fair market wages through a new laptop-enabled program.
California
fromTruthout
4 months ago

CA Relies on Incarcerated Firefighters. They Finally Make Federal Minimum Wage.

California depends heavily on incarcerated firefighters and passed AB 247 to raise base pay and double sentence-reduction, though wages remain insufficient.
Remote teams
fromMaine Public
6 months ago

In Maine, prisoners are thriving in remote jobs and other states are taking notice

Expanded laptop access in Maine prisons enables incarcerated people to learn coding, secure remote tech jobs, earn higher incomes, and pursue meaningful career paths.
Black Lives Matter
fromTruthout
10 months ago

California Prisoners Organize Work Slowdown to Protest Degrading Conditions

Incarcerated workers at Centinela State Prison protested conditions by slowing production for the California Prison Industry Authority.
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