WAAY 31 Special Report: Inmates accuse Alabama prison system of state-sanctioned slavery
Current and former inmates filed a lawsuit challenging Alabama's prison labor program as a type of "modern-day slavery."
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Current and former inmates filed a lawsuit challenging Alabama's prison labor program as a type of "modern-day slavery."
Unions in Alabama say a statewide prison-work release program is basically enslavement of incarcerated workers.
The suit claims they were 'entrapped in a system of 'convict leasing' in which incarcerated people are forced to work, often for little or no money' while the state kept the profits of their labor.
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