Prison Labor: Inmates Exploited for Profit | Corporate Casket

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:40.0	learn more about the company, the philosophy of the beliefs, how we source our ingredients,
0:43.5	and of course to check out the new products.
0:45.1	Thanks guys. What if the company you worked for told you your pay was going to be about a dollar an hour?
0:54.6	What if that pay would be garnished up to 80 percent? And what if your refusal to
0:59.5	participate in this
1:04.1	could lead to consequences of solitary confinement. Well, this is the reality for thousands of people incarcerated in the criminal justice
1:08.2	system working for private companies.
1:11.1	Just looking around the average household, there is likely at least one thing that has come from inmate labor sold by a massive company.
1:18.0	How did this happen? And how pervasive is this practice?
1:22.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another episode. How pervasive is this practice?
1:22.8	Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of the corporate casket.
1:26.5	Today we will be discussing the history of inmate labor and the multiple companies that
1:30.4	have allegedly utilized inmate labor to produce their products. People who are incarcerated. that have
1:35.0	been previously incarcerated
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