'Relic of Slavery': California Lawmakers Are Trying Again to Raise Pay for Incarcerated Workers

‘Prisons are akin to chattel slavery’: Inside the big business of prison farms and ‘agricarceral’ slave labor

Private companies and state governments have long exploited the 13th Amendment to create a profitable agribusiness system that runs on prison slave labor. “If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession, it’s built on enslavement,” says Joshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of that violence lives on in the big business of “agricarceral” farming today. In this episode of…

'Relic of slavery': California lawmakers are trying again to raise pay for incarcerated workers

In summary Many people in California prisons and jails work for less than $1 an hour. Lawmakers are advancing two bills that could lead to wage increases for some of them. Despite voters’ rejection of a ballot measure last fall to amend the state constitution to abolish involuntary prison labor, Assemblymember Isaac Bryan of Los Angeles believes he can get two bills passed that would improve wages for individuals inside jail and prison. “It’s an…

‘Relic of slavery’: California lawmakers are trying again to raise pay for incarcerated workers

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Despite voters’ rejection of a ballot measure last fall to amend the state constitution to abolish involuntary prison labor, Assemblymember Isaac Bryan of Los Angeles believes he can get two bills passed that would improve wages for individuals inside jail and prison. “It’s […] The post ‘Relic of slavery’: California lawmakers are trying again to raise pay for inca…

California to Close Another Prison, Aiming for Community-Based Justice - Davis Vanguard

Governor Gavin Newsom has proposed closing another California state prison as a fiscal necessity and to invest in community-based justice, with CURB advocating for transparency and reinvestment in the process.