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Maryland Needs to Criminalize Labor Trafficking

Two young women from Africa recently escaped from an a large home in the affluent suburb of Potomac, Maryland. They were forced to work 18 hour days seven days a week and were paid only 50 cents an hour. The family they worked for seized their passports, thus preventing them from fleeing, and threatened to hurt them if they tried to escape. These abuses are all indicators of forced labor, but surprisingly Maryland is one of three states in the U.S.

| Wednesday March 6, 2019
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