Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable ...

Californians rejected the anti-slavery ballot measure Proposition 6, which would have forbid forced prison labor. Reparations ...

Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Marco Rubio seemed open to President Nayib Bukele's offer to send American prisoners to El Salvador.

Legislators seeking to close the legal loophole allowing forced prison labor took note, including Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon. For a painstaking, broad and thorough investigation that connected ...

But the problem of labor ... prison system and, at times, private interests. With mass deportations threatening to strip the agricultural workforce, it’s not impossible to imagine that states ...

President Donald Trump signs executive order for mass deportation to ensue, while dissolving previous ban on private prisons. Here's what to know.

but prison rights activists largely oppose the use of prison labor, which they call exploitative. Despite the loss, the prison rights advocates will continue "fighting to have additional wages ...

On a special episode (first released on January 9, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: The practice of profiting from prison labor ... varies state to state. Some states are more or less progressive ...

The United States government has condemned the death of Cuban political prisoner Yoleisy Oviedo Rodríguez in a forced labor camp in Cuba, issuing a ...