A newly released report from the United Nations’ International Labor Organization states that authorities in China are not only using "vocational skills training and education centers" for ...

Bertram notes that the notion that prisons could serve as a self-sustaining economic engine, providing cheap labor for agricultural work, evolved into the system of prison farms that still exists ...

The use of prison labor is particularly concerning, given Black Americans are incarcerated at nearly five times the rate of white Americans in state prisons. In 12 states, more than half of the ...

One ex-prisoner described it as "involuntary servitude." The use of prison labor is particularly concerning, given Black Americans are incarcerated at nearly five times the rate of white Americans ...

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 ...

In New York, chairs in classrooms, street signs and license plates have one thing in common: They are all produced by prison labor. As of 2024, around 1.8 million people were incarcerated in both ...

Prison labor that is not properly compensated, whether that is rescuing a community from a fire or manufacturing goods in a factory, should be seen and treated as a fundamental violation of one ...

BEIJING--Nearly one in 25 people in a county in the Uighur heartland of China has been sentenced to prison on terrorism-related charges, in what is the highest known imprisonment rate in the world ...