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Prison Slavery in Today’s USA
Top 25 of 2013Oct 10, 2012
The US comprises less than 5 percent of the world’s population, yet US prisons hold more than 25 percent of all people imprisoned globally. Many of these prisoners labor at twenty-three cents per hour, or similar wages, in federal prisons contracted by the Bureau of Prisons’ UNICOR, a quasi-public, for-profit corporation, which is the US government’s thirty-ninth largest contractor. As incarceration rates explode in the US, thousands are placed in solitary confinement, often for having committed minor disciplinary infractions within prison.
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Sara Flounders, “The Pentagon and Slave Labor in U.S. Prisons,”Workers World, June 6, 2011,http://www.workers.org/2011/us/pentagon_0609.
James Ridgeway and Jean Casella, “Cruel and Usual: US Solitary Confinement,” Al Jazeera English, March 19, 2011,http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/03/201137125936219469.html.
