The practice of profiting from prison labor, both inside prisons and outside for private industries is complex and fraught.

Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable ...

As wildfires continue to burn in and around Los Angeles, the fact that many of the firefighters battling the blazes are inmates from California's prison system has drawn significant attention in news ...

Bertram notes that the notion that prisons could serve as a self-sustaining economic engine, providing cheap labor for agricultural work, evolved into the system of prison farms that still exists ...

FOLSOM, Calif. — At the edge of the American River near downtown Folsom is an old brick building that played a big part in ...

On a special episode (first released on January 9, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: The practice of profiting from prison labor, both inside prisons and outside for private industries is complex and ...

I served California as a firefighter. I responded to car accidents, medical emergencies, and wildfires. I was deployed to the ...

but this is actually one of the better-paying jobs in prison, and that’s why it’s actually a really sort of coveted job. So, even though it’s this grueling manual labor, and they’re out ...

Commissioner of the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services (BDOCS) Doan Cleare yesterday defended an inmate work release ...