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MCDONALD’S/MICROSOFT/VICTORIA’S SECRET USING PRISON LABOR TO CUT COSTS

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Mollye Barrows
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August 29, 2018
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Via Boom Bust RT America: Who’s benefiting from inmate labor? Mollye Barrows is
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Bart Chilton: The other day we told you about American prisoners in more than a
dozen states protesting poor labor conditions, among other issues. Prison labor
is a billion dollar a year business, and many inmates say it amounts to
modern-day slavery. As the debate goes on, some businesses, big businesses, are
making a profit on the circumstances.

Here with more is Mollye Barrows, legal journalist with the National Trial
Lawyer magazine, who joins us from beautiful Pensacola, Florida. Mollye, thank
you for being with us. I mean, what sparked this whole thing?

Mollye Barrows: Well, it was the riots, those deadly riots, at Lee Correctional
Institution in South Carolina earlier this year. Seven inmates were dead, dozens
more … well, actually, about 17 more were severally injured. Inmates now through
the Jailhouse Lawyers Speak, it’s a group of inmates that are basically leading
this strike, an organized group, and they say enough’s enough, that the
conditions, the living conditions, are poor in prisons across the country, that
violence like what they saw in South Carolina is common at other prisons across
the country.

They also want to bring attention to the fact that not only are living
conditions in prisons terrible, sentencing structure is terrible, unfair
sentencing, racial discrimination, and one of the big ones is they basically
feel like modern-day slaves, that they’re being forced to work for pennies on
the dollar, like some making less than a dollar a day, or right around a dollar
a day. Federal law says they have to work. Federal law says federal prisoners in
fact have to work. A lot of times they’re doing menial work, custodial type
jobs, but a lot of times companies are hiring them as well and using some of
this labor to profit. These inmates are saying, “Hey, give us what’s fair. If
we’re going to be serving our time, then don’t treat us like modern-day slaves.”

Bart Chilton: Yeah, I mean, they have to have basic human rights, but the other
hand is they are prisoners. But I am curious, and I’m dying to know this, when
we first covered this story as a headline, which businesses are profiting from
inmate labor and how are they doing so, Mollye?

Mollye Barrows: Well, it’s really interesting. I did a lot of online searching,
I looked through a lot of other articles that have covered this particular
issue. Career Addict, which is a website that basically helps people with job
searches, had an article that listed the seven companies as of last year that
were making the most or were also profiting off prison labor. Again, these are
companies that are making lots of money and they’re getting labor at a discount
for a lot of smaller services. Some of the companies they listed including
McDonald’s, which was making uniforms and things like straws. They talked about
other companies including American Airlines hiring prisoners that would answer
their call service center, their call center. Microsoft, Wal-Mart, there were
whole list of companies and some of them do business directly. I mean, you’ve
heard in recent years companies like Victoria Secret and Whole Foods received a
little criticism in the press about doing business with prison labor in order to
cut down on their labor costs, but there’s another way that these business go
about doing business with these prisoners as well or with these prisons, I
should say.

The American Legislative Exchange Council, I had not heard of this group before,
it’s an organization that’s made up of … voluntarily of state legislators. They
influence everything from sentencing laws that have … impact inmates, as well as
they help with legislation that allows inmates to manufacture these products and
these services. They have a direct hand in passing legislation that makes it
easier for these companies to use these prisoners for their labor.

Going back to your point, I mean they are prisoners, they are required to work.
I don’t think anybody would disapprove of them making the most of their time
while they’re there, but the other side of prison, which often gets neglected
and ignored, is that it’s supposed to be about rehabilitation. A lot of these
jobs that they’re using these inmates for are not giving them skills that are
going to prepare them for life on the outside.

Ideally, most of these inmates are going to be back outside again, and they’re
already being nickeled and dimed and charge for everything inside those prison
walls in order to get food from the commissary, in order to email their
relatives. All sorts of services that, obviously, we take for granted on the
outside are available on the inside for a fee, and then they’re getting paid
pennies on the dollar by corporations or by the state that they’re working …
that they’re living in. In essence, they come out either in debt or at zero, or
without a lot of money and they can’t rebuild their lives like that. If we’re
going to put them to work, at least let’s put them to work doing something
that’s going to be of value.

Bart Chilton: So intriguing and insightful. Mollye Barrows, legal journalist for
National Trial Lawyers Magazine. Thanks, Mollye.

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Mollye Barrows
Mollye is a journalist, investigative reporter, and former news anchor. Mollye
graduated from the University of West Florida in 1996 with a Bachelor’s in
Communications Arts. She worked as an anchor and reporter for WEAR-TV 3 (an ABC
affiliated) in Pensacola for nearly twenty years. She has also served as a
television host and journalist with BLAB-TV and the Studer Community Institute.



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