Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers

Date Published: June 15, 2022

Published By: ACLU

This comprehensive report documents the harsh conditions and unfair practices, highlighting how incarcerated workers’ labor helps maintain prisons and provides vital public services. *If you are unfamiliar with the practice of prison labor, this is a great place to start.*

Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers, an ACLU research report produced in collaboration with the Global Human Rights Clinic of the University of Chicago Law School, examines the use of prison labor throughout state and federal 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.

Incarcerated workers forced to work for pennies an hour. (Credit: ACLU's Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers, 2022)

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