{"id":137605,"date":"2024-10-28T12:58:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=137605"},"modified":"2024-10-28T12:58:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T12:58:47","slug":"inmate-labor-tests-the-limits-on-involuntary-servitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=137605","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Inmate Labor Tests the Limits on \u2018Involuntary Servitude\u2019&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/26\/business\/economy\/prison-labor-alabama-hyundai.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NY Times<\/a>: &#8220;Under Alabama prison rules, there are thin lines between work incentives, forced labor and \u201cinvoluntary servitude\u201d \u2014 which reforms to the Alabama Constitution in 2022 banned. From the viewpoint of Mr. Anderson and more than a dozen other Alabama inmates interviewed by The New York Times, the ultimate message, in practice, is straightforward: Do this, or else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cYou have no choice,\u201d said Mr. Anderson, 43, who has served 15 years of a 20-year felony sentence for a marijuana trafficking conviction in 2009, and has been contracted out to Ju-Young for about a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cIf you don\u2019t,\u201d he added, \u201cthey\u2019re going to send you on back to the camp and you get rolled up with a disciplinary charge\u201d \u2014 like denial of parole, having \u201cgood time\u201d revoked, which prolongs incarceration, or being made to work without pay at prison facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The men hanging out with Mr. Anderson in the parking lot \u2014 who live with him up the road at a low-security corrections facility for work-release-eligible inmates \u2014 nodded in agreement. Most declined to speak on the record out of fear of retaliation.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times: &#8220;Under Alabama prison rules, there are thin lines between work incentives, forced labor and \u201cinvoluntary servitude\u201d \u2014 which reforms to the Alabama Constitution in 2022 banned. From the viewpoint of Mr. Anderson and more than a dozen other Alabama inmates interviewed by The New York Times, the ultimate message, in practice, is straightforward:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137606,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137605\/revisions\/137606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}