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Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year. 

A landmark trafficking lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good. The suit says it seeks “to abolish a modern day form of slavery” https://t.co/KG8NB6OnEw

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) May 11, 2024ALT

Corporate America Never Really Quit Forced Labor

Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year. A landmark lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good.

Thanks to everyone in the notes for suggesting the non-paywalled version.

And yes I know this is about prison labor (which is a whole absolutely unconscionable thing in this country), and not about other involuntary labor in corporate America (where pretty much all labor is coerced by threat of death-by-not-earning-a-living)

But… That link preview with selected text “Are you a robot” followed by “Corporate America never really quit forced labor” is just… too on the nose