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Stuff You Should Know

The Brutal History of Prison Labor

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The idea of prison labor is relatively new in the annals of crime and punishment. And it's just as bad as you think.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.6

Hey, everybody.

0:05.7

We are partnering up with the Cooperator for Education once again to help raise money

0:10.1

for their Rise Youth Development Program, which send students to school in Guatemala,

0:15.0

and they break the cycle of poverty through education.

0:17.4

Yeah, kids who otherwise would not have gotten an education get a world-class one

0:21.5

thanks to co-ed, thanks to your donations. And so far, in our history with co-ed, which dates back

0:27.1

all the way to 2009, Stuff You Should Know listeners have given $1.4 million in donations and

0:33.6

helped 172 different rise students who are sponsored directly by Stuff You Should Know fans.

0:39.7

So we're asking you guys to do it again.

0:42.3

And if you go to cooperative for education.org

0:45.1

and give today as little as $20 to support a RISE student,

0:49.8

you will be entered into a raffle to be picked

0:53.3

to hang out with us virtually in January.

0:56.9

That's right. Set up a recurring gift of $20 a month by December 19th, and you can win that

1:01.7

raffle and hang out with us in a Zoom call. It's a lot of fun. We do it every year, and it's a great

1:06.8

organization to support. So go to cooperative foreducation.org slash sysysk and you'll get all the info you need. And thank you.

1:17.4

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeartRadio.

1:26.9

Hey and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and it's just us. Jerry's on leave right now. She's having a little R&R, living it up in the South Seeds, falling in love, spending a lot of time on beach, writing people's names in the sand for money. Wow.

1:47.4

I assume that's what she's doing. Oh, okay.

1:51.2

She might also just be in New York. It's one of the two. Right.

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