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September 27, 2018
What Happens When Prisoners Go on Strike?
More than 2,000 firefighters battling the blaze in California this summer came from inside the state鈥檚 prison system. They were part of a national workforce of incarcerated people, paid pennies per hour and sometimes nothing at all, for hourly labor benefiting the U.S. economy. Driven in part by demands for...
What Happens When Prisoners Go on Strike? September 27, 2018
What Happens When Prisoners Go on Strike?
What Happens When Prisoners Go on Strike?More than 2,000 firefighters battling the blaze in California this summer came from inside the state鈥檚 prison system. They were part of a national workforce of incarcerated people, paid pennies per hour and sometimes nothing...