How prison labor works in Arizona
www.workers.org
The following article was excerpted from an Arizona Republic and KJZZ News July 22 investigative exposé revealing “what happens when a state exploits some of its poorest people for their labor.” Full story at tinyurl.com/2p8ffmnn. After 15 months of gathering and analyzing more than 11,000 docu

Many prisoners say they enjoy the jobs, if only because it gets them out into the free world and gives them something to do. The biggest problem: They are often paid less than $1 an hour. And despite the misconception that everything in their lives is paid for, prison life is really quite expensive. Prices for goods are about the same as in the outside world. From pens and paper to envelopes and stamps, it could take a full week for some prisoners to buy what they need to send a single letter to a family member by mail.

    • @TheConquestOfBed
      7•2 years ago

      Fuckin 13th ammendment exception never went away. We still got chaingangs in the cyberpunk era.

    • @JohnBrownEnjoyer@lemmygrad.ml
      6•2 years ago

      Also, aren’t there more slaves today than in the 18th and 19th centuries? The only thing that changed about slavery is that imperialists and slavers are now better at hiding it.