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Corporations Using Prisoners to Fight Phantom Labor Shortage
Loaded on Jan. 1, 2022
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2022, page 42
Filed under:
Prison Labor.
Location:
United States of America.
by Matt Clarke
Recently, during an industrial conference, executives from Waste Management Services (which recorded $15.22 billion in 2020 revenues), discussed using immigrants as truck drivers, and other industry executives suggested using prison or work-release programs to fill openings in the sanitation, waste, and recycling industry.
But Chuck Stiles, director ...
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