Labor Strike

‘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

ByEyes on Trafficking News

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…

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

ByEyes on Trafficking News

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…