Alabama’s 'modern-day slavery’ prison work programs taken to court
This week, current and former prisoners in Alabama filed a lawsuit in federal court arguing that the state’s prison labor system violates both the U.S. and Alabama constitutions by subjecting inmates to a “modern-day form of slavery,” The New York Times reports. Suit aims to abolish illegal “labor trafficking scheme” Thousands of prisoners in many states across the U.S. work in “correctional industries” programs, producing clothing,
