1. Created by: Andrew, Chad, Jake, and Trent
Prison Labor
Created by: Andrew, Chad, Jake, and Trent
Jake

2. General Information
Prison Labor has existed since the 1800s and still exists today
Not many people know it exists or realize what it really is
Many Fortune 500 companies rely heavily on prison labor
Can be considered anything from manual labor such as working in a field to inmates answering phone calls for a call center
Jake

3. Timeline
1600’s
Slaves are brought by European Colonies to what is now North America
1900’s
“Legal” segregation is common at first, then is later repealed
People started to see the unethical issue with slavery , 13th Amendment, Black Codes
1800’s
2000’s
Prison labor becomes modern slavery
Jake

4. 13th Amendment
Section 1
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the united states, or any place subjected to their jurisdiction.
Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Section 2
Jake

5. The History of Slaves
Slaves have been around in the US since the 1600s
Brought by North American Colonies to Richmond, Virginia
It wasn’t until around 1850 when people began to see the unethicalness of slavery
Chad

6. 1800’s 1865: 13th Amendment...no slave labor 1865-1866: Black Codes
Reconstruction begins
Federal Government creates laws to stabilize the South’s Economy, Society, and Government
: Black Codes
Laws which were designed to restrict freed blacks activity and to ensure they are available to work
Did this through mandates...required slaves to sign yearly labor contracts or face the possibility of arrest
Those arrested could be lent out to white landowners.
Chad

7. 1800’s 1890: Jim Crow Laws 1896: Plessy v Ferguson
Enforced Racial Segregation in the South
1896: Plessy v Ferguson
Separate but Equal
Chad

8. Slavery in Today’s Time
Slavery is not legal anywhere, but happens almost everywhere
Researchers estimate 40 million people are enslaved worldwide
Labor Slavery - 50%
Sex Slavery %
Forced Marriage Slavery %
Child Slavery - 25% (of total)
Chad

9. Number and Location of Workers
More than 2.2 million people in the United States incarcerated
Largest prison population in the world
Additionally, 4,751,400 adults in 2013 (1 in 51) were on probation or on parole
2,500 prison/jail INDUSTRIES recorded in 1998
In 1898, 73% of Alabama’s annual state revenue is reported to come from convict leasing
70 operational factories in 33 California prisons
UNICOR operates 52 factories across the United States
October 2016-March 2017 UNICORE sold $252,414,987 worth of goods/services
Mississippi, New York, California, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Colorado,
Chad

10. Daily Operations In Texas... Report to work Sight by 6:00 am1
Wake up at 3:30 am
Breakfast served at 4:30 am 2 3
Report to work Sight by 6:00 am 4
Jobs are mostly agribusiness 5
Inadequate wages
TRENT
Prisoners typically start their day at 3:30 a.m.
Breakfast at 4:30
Required to report to their worksite by 6 a.m.
Jobs: Mostly Agribusiness (prison-farms, big businesses)
Most revenue brought in from operations go directly to the prison system, and the workers get almost nothing
Most prisoners choose to work, because it lessens their prison sentence

11. UNICOR Federal Prison Industry created in 1934
Owned and operated by the United States Government
Net income is around $45,000,000 per year
Sells market-priced goods and services made by inmates
A correctional program which helps offenders learn the necessary skills to transition from being criminals to law-abiding members of society.
Claims, on the UNICOR website, that they are not a business and that they are a correctional program

12. Relation to Today’s Workplace
Seen in Big Businesses:
Mcdonald's (purchases plastic, containers, and uniforms)
People who make the Mcdonald’s uniforms make even less than those who wear them
Walmart (produce is all made from long-labored prison farms)
Extremely comparable to slavery
Prisoners make next to nothing
Treated very poorly
Big businesses are OK with using these prisoners for virtually wage-free labor
Nothing like the workplace as we know it
Trent

13. Treatment and Pay Treatment:
Slaves were considered numbers, not people. Now, Corporations focus on numbers, not people. The workers have minimum pay and are not necessarily treated in the most humane way.
Pay:
The Prison Policy Initiative found that the average inmate’s wage is 93 cents an hour — and can go as low as 16 cents — when they’re employed by private companies that use prison labor
Trent

14. The Cycle Prison Released Debt Inadequate wages Inability to pay fees
Underemployment
Released
Inability to pay fees
Debt
Andrew

15. Punishments
Prisoners who refuse to work (again, unpaid or paid very little) are placed in solitary confinement
Some work longer days/hours
On any given day, about 9,000 nationwide are put in prison or jail for violating the probation or parole requirement to hold a job
Personal Punishment: Those convicted are four times more likely to have a family member who commit a crime
Andrew

16. Constraints on Freedom
Physical Freedom:
Section 1: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
IN OTHER WORDS:
People in prisons have limited constitutional rights while they are in prison. They can be forced to work as punishment for their crimes.
These could be considered physical restraints on those incarcerated.
Demoralizes them and restricts their freedom
Moral Freedom:
By forcing prisoners to work, and making the very minimum amount of money, they are stuck in a state where they are unable to make money to pay back their debt and fees. This can be mentally frustrating because they are stuck in the same cycle and unable to get out of it.
Morally their rights have been restricted because they do not have the ability to make decisions or choose to make the right choice.
Restricts constitutional freedoms
Andrew

17. Works Cited https://www.topmanagementdegrees.com/slave-management/