Prison labor is facing increased legal challenges ... from labor activists and some lawyers who say the system is a modern form of the “convict-leasing” forced labor programs of the Jim ...

With a sprawling labor system that dates back more than 150 years — including the brutal convict leasing era that replaced slavery — it has constructed a template for the commercialization of ...

With a sprawling labor system that dates back more than 150 years — including the brutal convict leasing era that replaced slavery — it has constructed a template for the commercialization of ...

Takeaways From the Associated Press’ Reporting on Prison Labor in Alabama DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private ...