Incarcerated Alabamans “are trapped in this labor trafficking scheme,” a new federal class action lawsuit says.

Incarcerated Alabamans and labor organizations have filed a federal class action lawsuit to dismantle the forced prison labor system in the state, which rakes in $450 million annually from leasing incarcerated people to companies like McDonald’s, KFC, Burger King and Wendy’s.

Leasing people reduces them to the status of property which literal slavery.