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Inside Out September 2, 2021
Some prison labor programs lose money — even when prisoners work for pennies
Officials claim programs provide skills, but critics say there’s little evidence.
By Keri Blakinger
Life Inside January 18, 2018
My First Job Out of Prison Was Back in Prison
“It felt like all eyes were on me.”
By David Van Horn as told to Maurice Chammah
Eduardo Amezcua, an inmate firefighter from the Antelope Conservation Camp mops up hot spots during the wildfires that devastated large swaths of California’s wine country in Sonoma County. Roughly 3,800 inmates in the state’s prison system are on the front lines of active wild fires this fall.
The Frame October 23, 2017
In California, the Prisoners Fighting the Wine Country Wildfires
Photographer Brian L. Frank captures the lives of men on the fire lines and at home in prison conservation camps.
By Celina Fang
The joint resolution proposing the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified December 6, 1865, and abolished slavery, except as punishment for a crime.
News September 27, 2016
A Primer on the Nationwide Prisoners’ Strike
Prisoners can be forced to work without pay — the Constitution says so.
By Beth Schwartzapfel
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