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 ...

The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude—except as punishment for a crime. This so-called "Except Clause" has long been used to justify forced ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEXSTAR) — Legislators, advocates, and people with firsthand experience in New York prisons gathered at the Capitol in Albany on Tuesday morning to push for prison labor reforms. The ...

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the past with men working in the heat on former slave plantations. He’s struck ...

Mark Miller worked a dangerous job for more than four decades, but he said he’d never gotten hurt at work until his employment with an automotive supplier in Montgomery. In two years with the company, ...