Exploitive Labor

These Prisoners Are Training AI
| | | |

These Prisoners Are Training AI

ByEyes on Trafficking News

Across a sterile white table in a windowless room, I’m introduced to a woman in her forties. She has a square jaw and blonde hair that has been pulled back from her face with a baby-blue scrunchie. “The girls call me Marmalade,” she says, inviting me to use her prison nickname. Early on a Wednesday…

COLUMN: The criminal industry before us all | Columnists | swoknews.com
| | | |

COLUMN: The criminal industry before us all | Columnists | swoknews.com

ByEyes on Trafficking News

By Lance Janda Human trafficking is the second largest criminal industry in the world. It enslaves approximately 25 million people, generates more than $150 billion annually, and receives far too little attention from the media, law enforcement, or elected officials. Traffickers operate in secret and in plain sight, and can be found in every country,…

Why don’t people being trafficked just leave?
|

Why don’t people being trafficked just leave?

ByEyes on Trafficking News

When first hearing about human trafficking, many people ask this question: “if people being trafficked are not physically restrained, why don’t they just leave?” The answer requires a compassionate and nuanced understanding of the multi-faceted nature of exploitation. Although the majority of trafficking survivors have not ever been chained up or kept locked in a…