- Deprived of work by COVID, prison escapee turns himself in after 30 years of beach life on the lam https://www.cbsnews.com/news/australia-fugitive-turns-self-in-30-years-after-prison-escape-blames-covid/ 27 comments nottheonion
- California kept prison factories open. Inmates worked for pennies an hour as COVID-19 spread https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-10-11/california-prison-factories-inmates-covid-19?_amp=true&__twitter_impression=true 51 comments politics
- Open prisons in Finland are 'like a holiday camp' — but they seem to work https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/open_prisons_in_finland_are_like_a_holiday_camp__but_they_seem_to_work/11214953 39 comments europe
- Coronavirus: Hong Kong prisoners work around the clock to boost mask production https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3048249/china-coronavirus-hong-kong-prisoners-work 6 comments worldnews
- Face the facts: competition and profit don't work in health, education or prisons https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/12/face-the-facts-competition-and-profit-dont-work-in-health-education-or-prisons 22 comments economy
- Microsoft allegedly outsourcing child labor in China: "We are like prisoners... We do not have a life, only work." http://www.nlcnet.org/reports?id=0034 75 comments worldnews
- Ex-FBI counterintelligence chief sentenced to over four years in prison for work with Russian oligarch https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/14/politics/ex-fbi-counterintelligence-chief-sentenced-to-sentenced-to-over-four-years-in-prison/index.html 25 comments politics
- White supremacist prison guards work with impunity in Fla. https://apnews.com/article/prisons-florida-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-60b96681445509d89e6c0497405497d6 43 comments politics
- At least seven states have prison inmates working in governors mansions and Capitol buildings. https://www.truthdig.com/articles/at-least-seven-states-have-prison-inmates-working-in-governors-mansions-and-capitol-buildings/ 68 comments politics
- California's 3-Strike Prison Reform Is Working. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/02/released-3-strike-convicts-stay-out-prison 6 comments politics
- Iran throws tech bloggers in prison for working with 'enemy media' http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/20/iran-arrests-tech-bloggers/ 7 comments worldnews
- How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison http://www.businessinsider.com/ebay-the-fbi-shawn-hogan-and-brian-dunning-2013-4 10 comments business
- US prisons are a form of slavery for the poor who are forced to work for pennies a day while incarcerated. http://www.opednews.com/articles/the-poor-are-enslaved-in-a-by-nancy-r-lockhart-090103-56.html 54 comments politics
- The prison system puts them to work and takes their paycheck... https://mississippitoday.org/2020/01/09/restitution-accountability/ 11 comments politics
- $800 Million in Taxpayer Money Went to Private Prisons Where Migrants Work for Pennies https://www.thedailybeast.com/dollar800-million-in-taxpayer-money-went-to-private-prisons-where-migrants-work-for-pennies?ref=home&via=twitter_page 179 comments politics
- Republican congressmen defend $1 a day wage for immigrant detainees who work in private prisons https://www.denverpost.com/2018/03/16/geo-prisons-lawsuit-congress-letter/ 27 comments politics
- 'Prison clearly does not work' Fresh from jail, the economist and author of Prisonomics explains why the system costs too much, locks up the wrong people and does not prevent reoffending http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/29/vicky-pryce-prison-does-not-work-prisonomics-economist 2057 comments worldnews
- Florida Governor Pushes Prison Work Release Privatization Plan http://www.forbes.com/sites/mattstroud/2013/02/01/florida-governor-pushes-forward-with-privatization-plan/ 7 comments politics
- Getting Paid 93 Cents a Day in America? Corporations Bring Back the 19th Century: Nearly a million prisoners are working in call centers, working in slaughterhouses, or manufacturing textiles while getting paid somewhere between 93 cents and $4.73. http://www.alternet.org/rights/155061/getting_paid_93_cents_a_day_in_america_corporations_bring_back_the_19th_century/ 3 comments politics
- Prison nation run for corporations: "Georgia puts probationers to work in fields after farmers complain about immigration crackdown." http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/industries/georgia-puts-probationers-to-work-in-fields-after-farmers-complain-about-immigration-crackdown/2011/06/22/agasxwfh_story_1.html 6 comments politics
- BP Hides Use of Black Prison Labor For Oil Gusher Cleanup. Inmates are not allowed to reject the dangerous work which might ruin their health. http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/07/23/bp-hides-use-of-black-prison-labor-for-oil-gusher-cleanup/ 30 comments politics
- Instead of going to prison, criminals in Texas are getting sentenced to read books...and it is working http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jul/21/texas-offenders-reading-courses 13 comments books
- Builders working near the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp have found a message in a bottle written by prisoners "who were trying to leave some trace of their existence behind them". http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8022667.stm 11 comments history
- Bernie Sanders wants to let felons to vote in prison - here's how it works in Vermont https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/politics/government/2019/04/23/bernie-sanders-prison-felon-voting-rights-vermont-2020-presidential-campaign-cnn-town-hall/3549947002/ 44 comments politics
- An engineer who once worked for Russia's military intelligence has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for seeking a job at a Swedish company http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34318071 188 comments worldnews
- Five Facts That Put America to Shame | Privatization simply hasn't worked for health care, mortgage banking, higher education, or prison management. http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/14-0 114 comments politics
- Riot-hit Britain plans to put prisoners to work http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/riot-hit-britain-plans-to-put-prisoners-to-work/ 4 comments worldnews
- With US Prison Strike on Third Day, Reports of Hunger Strikes and Work Stoppages Nationwide https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/23/us-prison-strike-third-day-reports-hunger-strikes-and-work-stoppages-nationwide 24 comments politics
- Wall St programmer put in prison for working on open source http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman-sachs-programmer 19 comments technology
- Is the Russia Prison System Working Pussy Riot Member to Death? A band member's hospitalization offers a harrowing glimpse into Russia's brutal prison system. http://www.alternet.org/world/russia-prison-system-working-pussy-riot-member-death 11 comments europe
- Doctors Without Borders has suspended its work in prisons in the Libyan city of Misrata because it said torture was so rampant that some detainees were brought for care only to make them fit for further interrogation http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/doctors-without-borders-says-it-halts-work-in-libyan-citys-prisons-because-of-torture/2012/01/26/giqabahdsq_story.html 90 comments worldnews
- The tortured child bride: Horrific ordeal of Afghan girl, 15, rescued from toilet prison after husband's family mutilated her for refusing to work as a prostitute http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2080716/afghan-child-bride-sahar-gul-15-mutilated-refusing-prostitution-rescued-toilet-prison.html 8 comments worldnews
- They thought they were going to rehab. They ended up in chicken plants. In the rush to spare people from prison, some judges are steering defendants into rehabs that are little more than lucrative work camps for private industry, an investigation has found. https://www.revealnews.org/article/they-thought-they-were-going-to-rehab-they-ended-up-in-chicken-plants/ 6 comments law
- Fears of a corporate police state - From private prisons to warrantless searches, the government is working with corporations to trample your rights [Full Article] http://www.salon.com/news/david_sirota/2011/06/02/america_corporate_police_state/index.html 4 comments reddit.com
- Man works hard and saves his paltry prison wages for 18 years. Upon his release, the State wants to seize it all to pay for his imprisonment. http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0315-prisoner-wages-20110314,0,3847106.story 145 comments politics
- GOP NY Governor Candidate Paladino Argues for Welfare Camps: "several plans that included converting underused state prisons into centers that would house welfare recipients. There, they would do work for the state." http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/gop-ny-governor-candidate-paladino-argues-w 3 comments politics
- PTSD rate among prison employees equals that of war veterans - Prison employees experience PTSD on par with Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, finds a new study. Working conditions in prison can include regular exposure to violence and trauma, and threats of harm to the workers and their families. https://news.wsu.edu/2018/07/13/ptsd-rate-among-prison-employees-equals-war-veterans/ 1580 comments science
- After leaving his upscale Cairo neighborhood to fight with the Islamic State militant group in Syria and Iraq, Younes says he learned how to work as a sniper, fire heavy weaponry and behead prisoners using the proper technique. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/03/us-egypt-security-islamicstate-insight-iduskbn0gy24n20140903?feedtype=rss&feedname=topnews 6 comments worldnews
- Inmates at Berlin Tegel jail set up world's first union for prisoners: group's founders want minimum wage and pension scheme for prison's convicts, who work regular shifts http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/30/inmates-berlin-tegel-jail-set-up-union-for-prisoners 60 comments worldnews
- Massive Human Rights Violations at Mississippi Prison: Prisoners are underfed and often held in rat-infested cells without working toilets or lights. Rapes, beatings, and stabbings are rampant. And some of the most sadistic violence is inflicted on prisoners by security staff. http://www.aclu.org/blog/human-rights-prisoners-rights/new-lawsuit-massive-human-rights-violations-mississippi-prison 373 comments politics