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The prison-industrial complex in the United States

Slave labor: forcing prisoners to work

by Vittorio Sergi, Matteo Dean

3 June 2005

Prisons are a profitable business, especially in the United States where cheap, without rights and -obviously- captive labor force is easily found. Many big enterprises, such as Microsoft, Starbucks and Colgate Palmolive, are taking advantage of this system. Beyond considerable benefits, the (...)