Hundreds of inmates joined the firefighters battling the wildfires in Southern California as part of a long-running controversial labor program. The state often relies on incarcerated firefighting ...

We examined the injustices of prison labor nationwide — and lay the foundation for a more equitable path forward. Our nation incarcerates more than 1.2 million people in state and federal prisons, and ...

But the movement was handed an unexpected defeat this year in progressive California, where the failure of a ballot measure explicitly packaged as a ban on forced prison labor has left activists ...

Use of prison labor in automotive supply areas may be suppressing labor and raising worker safety issues, a study found.

California voters have rejected a measure on the November ballot that would have amended the state constitution to ban forced prison labor. The constitution already prohibits so-called involuntary ...

Hyundai Kia labor abuse lawsuit claims the automakers used child, immigrant, and prison labor in their supply chains, prompting calls ...

Across Maryland’s prison system, incarcerated workers assemble furniture, sew clothing, and even manufacture cleaning chemicals. In spite of making the state more than $50 million annually in revenue, ...

A student in my “History of the Present” class asked me, “Do Californians really believe slavery is okay?” She referred to the defeat of California’s Proposition 6, which aimed to remove the so-called ...