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Company Uses Prison Slave Labor for $100 Million Military Contract
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2006, page 39
The prison and military industrial complexes have collided, with a private military contractor poised to make millions off the sweaty backs of prisoners.
Filed under:
Work,
Prison Industries,
Prison Labor.
Locations:
Georgia,
Kentucky,
Mississippi,
Pennsylvania,
Texas.
Pennsylvania-based Woolrich Inc. plans to use the labor of federal prisoners to fulfill two multi-million-dollar contracts with the Defense Department, according to an October 2, 2005, article ...
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