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Incarcerated workers take prison officials to court over forced labor in Louisiana

Incarcerated workers at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, commonly known as Angola, have filed a class-action lawsuit against the prison warden, Department of Corrections representatives and Prison Enterprises. They claim that they have been subjected to inhumane labor conditions while working on the prison's 18,000-acre farm. “This labor serves no legitimate penological or institutional purpose. It’s purely punitive, designed to ‘break’

| Saturday September 16, 2023
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