“Sometimes they say it’s illegal [for prisoners to unionize], but it’s not. It’s just frowned upon. But it works.”
New today from Michelle Pitcher: Texans are organizing inside and outside of prisons to empower incarcerated workers, who labor in dangerous conditions without pay. texasobserver.org/solidarity-p…
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Texas Observer • • •The American prison system produces billions of dollars of goods & services a year. Prison labor is slave labor.
"Annually, incarcerated workers provide at least $9 billion in services to the prison system and produce more than $2 billion in goods."
No wonder the private prison industry funds Republicans.
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These GOP lawmakers say it’s okay for imprisoned immigrants to work for a $1 a day
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