Prison Labor

The Nationwide Prison Strike is planned for August 21, the day Nat Turner led an uprising of slaves in 1831.

Romarilyn Ralston and Deirdre Wilson discuss more.

Building a movement to abolish the exclusion clause would be a major step in changing public attitudes about incarcerated people.

Are people incarcerated for their labor or to erase them from the landscapes being gentrified for the privileged?

When you can get inmate labor for less than a dollar a day, it's hard to see the government's motivation for incarcerating fewer people. And it's all done at …