How Private Prisons Profit from Forced Labor
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2020/10/how-private-prisons-profit-from-forced-labor
During his incarceration, he worked in the facility’s kitchen, making between $1 and $4 per day as part of the ironically named “Voluntary Work Program.” Barrientos explained that in prison, he faced an “impossible choice”: he could either work for pennies, or attempt to live without necessities such as soap and toilet paper, which were not provided to detainees and had to be purchased.
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