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Forced Labor Continues in Colorado, Years After Vote to End Prison Slavery  – Bolts
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Forced Labor Continues in Colorado, Years After Vote to End Prison Slavery  – Bolts

Throughout Abron Arrington’s decades-long incarceration in Colorado, he often found himself in solitary confinement—not because he was causing trouble, but simply because he refused to work. He didn’t see the point given he was paid 13 cents an hour and figured his time could be better spent learning physics. Before Arrington was incarcerated in 1989,…

GHRC Prison Labor Report Cited as Montana Inmates Deployed to Fight Wildfire
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GHRC Prison Labor Report Cited as Montana Inmates Deployed to Fight Wildfire

Montana state officials praise fire crew with prison inmates; national report, ACLU question pay Keila SzpallerAugust 27, 2023 Daily Montanan (read original here) The Montana Department of Corrections deployed 15 inmates and three correctional officers to help fight a wildfire in the state earlier this month, the DOC said in a news release. The inmates…

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Does involuntary servitude still exist in NJ? For now, it does — in prisons

People within the New Jersey prison system are required to work, and although the 13th Amendment eliminated slavery in the most basic sense, the idea of involuntary servitude is still allowed as …

The story behind why Louisiana voted against a ban on slavery
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The story behind why Louisiana voted against a ban on slavery

Last week, Louisiana voters struck down an amendment to its constitution that would have prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude. The four other states where slavery was on the ballot – Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee and Vermont – approved similar referenda. Louisiana was put in the national spotlight for rejecting the change. Trevor Noah did an entire…

‘I’m fighting for my life’: Inside Alabama’s prisons during ongoing labor strike
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‘I’m fighting for my life’: Inside Alabama’s prisons during ongoing labor strike

Inside Alabama’s prisons, men and women are refusing to go to work. Now, on day four of a prison labor strike that has garnered national attention, incarcerated people are living on two cold meals a day. The Alabama Department of Corrections switched to this “holiday meal schedule” — serving only breakfast and dinner — on…

‘We Always Have Disney Employees’: Florida Sheriff Reveals Results Of Human Trafficking “Fall Haul 2”
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‘We Always Have Disney Employees’: Florida Sheriff Reveals Results Of Human Trafficking “Fall Haul 2”

A Florida sheriff said that his department “always” caught Disney employees during undercover operations, while revealing the results of a week-long investigation into human trafficking. The large investigation, known as “Fall Haul 2,” was spearheaded by the Polk County Police Department and involved a week-long sting operation in central Florida that netted over 150 arrests….

Why unions can’t ignore incarcerated workers
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Why unions can’t ignore incarcerated workers

An estimated two thirds of the more than one million prisoners in the United States today are incarcerated workers. With many prisoners earning less than a dollar an hour, and those who refuse to work often facing vicious retaliation in the form of punitive solitary confinement, labor exploitation is an important part of what makes…

11 Men Arrested in Sting Operation Targeting Human Trafficking through Prostitution in Dubuque
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11 Men Arrested in Sting Operation Targeting Human Trafficking through Prostitution in Dubuque

Click a link below to jump to a particular article or scroll down to read the whole blog post. 11 Men Arrested in Prostitution Sting in Dubuque The NAHT Needs Your Help to Ensure the Iowa Legislature Passes the Safe Harbor Bill (HF 2464) New Human Trafficking Trainer at Iowa Law Enforcement Academy Iowa Faith-Based…