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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 2138961" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/04/04/prisoners-in-multiple-states-call-for-strikes-to-protest-forced-labor/" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2016/04/04/prisoners-in-multiple-states-call-for-strikes-to-protest-forced-labor/</a></p><p></p><p>"...</p><p>Instead, a majority of prisoners work for the prisons themselves, making well below the minimum wage in some states, and as little as <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289" target="_blank">17 cents</a> per hour in privately run facilities. In Texas and a few other states, mostly in the South, prisoners are not paid at all, said Erica Gammill, director of the Prison Justice League, an organization that works with inmates in 109 Texas prisons<em>. </em></p><p></p><p>“They get paid nothing, zero; it’s essentially forced labor,” she told <em>The Intercept</em>. <em>“</em>They rationalize not paying prison laborers by saying that money goes toward room and board, to offset the cost of incarcerating them.”</p><p></p><p>In Texas, prisoners have traditionally worked on farms, raising hogs and picking cotton, especially in East Texas, where many prisons occupy former plantations.</p><p></p><p>“If you’ve ever seen <a href="http://brucejacksonphotography.us/tdcbw/tdcbw.html" target="_blank">pictures</a> of prisoners in Texas working in the fields, it looks like what it is,” Greene said. “It’s a plantation: The prisoners are all dressed in white, they got their backs bent over whatever crop they’re tending, the guards are on horseback with rifles.” In the facilities Greene visited, prisoners worked all day in the heat only to return to cells with no air conditioning. “The conditions are atrocious, and it’s about time the Texas prison administration had to take note.”"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 2138961, member: 56035"] [URL]https://theintercept.com/2016/04/04/prisoners-in-multiple-states-call-for-strikes-to-protest-forced-labor/[/URL] "... Instead, a majority of prisoners work for the prisons themselves, making well below the minimum wage in some states, and as little as [URL='http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289']17 cents[/URL] per hour in privately run facilities. In Texas and a few other states, mostly in the South, prisoners are not paid at all, said Erica Gammill, director of the Prison Justice League, an organization that works with inmates in 109 Texas prisons[I]. [/I] “They get paid nothing, zero; it’s essentially forced labor,” she told [I]The Intercept[/I]. [I]“[/I]They rationalize not paying prison laborers by saying that money goes toward room and board, to offset the cost of incarcerating them.” In Texas, prisoners have traditionally worked on farms, raising hogs and picking cotton, especially in East Texas, where many prisons occupy former plantations. “If you’ve ever seen [URL='http://brucejacksonphotography.us/tdcbw/tdcbw.html']pictures[/URL] of prisoners in Texas working in the fields, it looks like what it is,” Greene said. “It’s a plantation: The prisoners are all dressed in white, they got their backs bent over whatever crop they’re tending, the guards are on horseback with rifles.” In the facilities Greene visited, prisoners worked all day in the heat only to return to cells with no air conditioning. “The conditions are atrocious, and it’s about time the Texas prison administration had to take note.”" [/QUOTE]
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