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26 Va. J. Soc. Pol'y & L. 65 (2019)
Shackled to Economic Appeal: How Prison Labor Facilitates Modern Slavery While Perpetuating Poverty in Black Communities

handle is hein.journals/vajsplw26 and id is 75 raw text is: SHACKLED TO ECONOMIC APPEAL: HOW PRISON LABOR FACILITATES MODERN SLAVERY WHILE PERPETUATING POVERTY IN BLACK COMMUNITIES Neveen Hammad* IN T R O D U C T IO N .................................................................................... 66 I. THE BLACK CODES .................................................................. 67 II. C ONVICT LEASING .................................................................... 68 III. C H A IN G AN G S ........................................................................... 70 IV. M ASS INCARCERATION ............................................................ 71 V. M ODERN PRISON LABOR ........................................................... 76 VI. THE PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX ......................................... 78 VII. ARGUMENTS SURROUNDING PRISON LABOR ........................... 81 A. Building Work Skills but Nowhere to Work: California s Inmate- F irefi ghters ....................................................................... 82 B. Poor Workplace Conditions: The Poultry Plant ................... 84 C. Exposure to Work Structure & Reducing Inmate Idleness: ....... 85 A ngola State P rison ............................................................ 85 D. Inmate Views on Prison Labor ........................................... 87 C O N CLU SIO N ................................................................................... 88 * American University Washington College of Law, Class of 2019.

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