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California Tells Court It Can’t Release Inmates Early Because It Would Lose Cheap Prison Labor
Out of California’s years-long litigation over reducing the population of prisons deemed unconstitutionally overcrowded by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010, another obstacle to addressing the U.S. epidemic of mass incarceration has emerged: The
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Video: Prison labor booms in US as low-cost inmates bring billions
US breeds a Chinese-style inmate labor scheme on its own soil. Both state and some of the biggest private companies are now enjoying the fruits of a cheap and readily available work force, with
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