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2. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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   Nearly 40 percent of the nation’s juvenile delinquents are today committed to private facilities, according to the most recent federal data from 2011, up from about 33 percent twelve years earlier. Over the past two decades, more than 40,000 boys and girls in 16 states have gone through one of Slattery’s prisons, boot camps or detention ...

3. Paid prison labour - Wikipedia

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   In the federal prison system, pay rates for these jobs range between US$0.12 to US$0.40 per hour. [19] A smaller 4% of the U.S. prison population work in ‘correctional industries’, producing goods and services which are then sold externally to government agencies, Schools and non-profit organisations. [19]

4. Penal labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Responsible for the largest prison population in the United States (over 140,000 inmates) the Texas Department of Criminal Justice is known to make extensive use of unpaid prison labor. [60] Prisoners are engaged in various forms of labor with tasks ranging from agriculture and animal husbandry, to manufacturing soap and clothing items. [60]

5. Prison commissary - Wikipedia

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   Commissary list, circa 2013. A prison commissary [1] or canteen [2] is a store within a correctional facility, from which inmates may purchase products such as hygiene items, snacks, writing instruments, etc. Typically inmates are not allowed to possess cash; [3] instead, they make purchases through an account with funds from money contributed by friends, family members, etc., or earned as wages.

6. I couldn’t make a living wage when I was released from prison ...

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   Before going to a federal prison camp in Alderson, West Virginia, I took a job as a barista at a popular coffee chain. The involuntary career change from accounting, my previous line of work, was ...

7. Out of prison, out of work: Fayetteville felon, activist ...

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   According to a 2022 report from North Carolina State University's Institute for Emerging Issues, 43.6% of Black women who've served time in prison or jail face unemployment — much higher than ...