Inmates Launch Series of Work Stoppages to Protest ‘Slave Labor’

Prisoners in dozens of correctional facilities around the nation launched a labor strike Sept. 9, a day that, appropriately, was the 45th anniversary of New York’s Attica prison rebellion. The U.S. incarcerates the greatest number of people in the world, and most of them are expected to work inside the prisons that hold them, usually for well below minimum wage.

Inmates say the system is akin to slavery and hence unconstitutional.  Read more.