Prison Labor

Slavery rejected in some, not all, states where on ballot

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Black prisoners and children as young as 12 enriched U.S. empires

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end mass incarceration, theGrio.com

The 5 states with ballot initiatives to abolish slavery in 2022

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Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg severs ties with firm that hired prison laborers to make campaign calls

Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg said he was unaware that his campaign used a third-party vendor to contract the call center company.
/ December 25, 2019
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

Clinton gets backlash for using Black prison labor as first lady of Arkansas

In her 1996 book It Takes A Village, Hillary Clinton describes how Black prison workers worked at the Arkansas governor’s mansion while she lived there.
/ June 8, 2017
Luther Vandross was outed as gay after his death.

GA gov proposes ex-cons pick fruit, cotton instead of immigrants

theGRIO REPORT- Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal came up with a plan to have probationers fill the void left by immigrant workers and make them work on farms for paltry wages…
/ July 6, 2011