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Edgeworth Economics | January 2024
This independent economic study makes the fiscal case for ending slavery and involuntary servitude in prisons and paying incarcerated workers fair wages. It reveals that this policy change would generate fiscal benefits to incarcerated workers, their families and children, crime victims, and society at large to the tune of billions every year.
Understanding the Many Forms of Prison Labor
Worth Rises | January 2024
This blog series explores the different types of jobs incarcerated workers have in prisons across the U.S.
Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers
ACLU | June 2022
This report examines the use of prison labor throughout federal and state prisons in the U.S. Bringing together interviews and surveys of incarcerated workers, analysis of government data, desk research, and policy review, this comprehensive report documents the harsh conditions and unfair practices, highlighting how incarcerated workers’ labor helps maintain prisons and provides vital public services.
Verité | June 2022
This brief analyzes prison labor in the U.S. using the International Labor Organization’s standards and guidance, concluding that prison labor does constitute forced labor.
The Prison Industry: How it started. How it works. How it harms.
Worth Rises | December 2020
This textbook offers a blueprint of the prison industry. Each chapter covers the history of privatization of one sector, the methods corporations involved use to extract resources from public coffers and communities, and the harm they cause communities with first-person accounts. Chapter 4 covers labor.
Introducing the Abolition Amendment
#EndTheException | June 2021
Featuring remarks from Senator Jeff Merkley and Congresswoman Nikema Williams, a discussion with formerly incarcerated advocates, and powerful poetry, this virtual event celebrates the legislative introduction of the Abolition Amendment.
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Host a cookout for your family and friends to educate them about the 13th Amendment and encourage them to take action to end the exception. You are the most credible messenger we could have to reach them. Here’s everything you need.
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2021 Campaign PSA
2022 Campaign PSA