For many years, I have wished that products made in China could be labeled as follows: “Free Labor” or “Prison Labor.” That would be a service to the buying public, wouldn’t it?

On December 1, he was returned to prison still suffering from his ... Within the legal community in China, reeducation through labor is controversial. Its revision or elimination was under ...

But a recent lawsuit, brought to the Eastern District of Wisconsin—Milwaukee Division—alleges that Milwaukee Tools used forced prison labor in China to manufacture the brand's gloves.

Incarcerated people recognize low-wage prison labor as inherently exploitive. To protest poor prison conditions and unfair labor practices, incarcerated people across 17 states this week embarked ...

Her husband is still imprisoned in central China. “Milwaukee Tool owes victims ... citing forced Chinese prison labor is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At least 20 states across the US have announced they will use prison labor to make essentials like sanitizer, medical gowns, and face masks. While the decisions attempt to combat shortages of ...