#incarceratedworkers — Public Fediverse posts

Investors to profit from “Public Private Partnership” NT #incarceratedworkers & cheapest price prison labour ?

(Note: Productivity Commission February reports eight privately operated prisons in Australia, located across New South Wales, Victoria, Western Australia and South Australia.)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-17/nt-new-privately-operated-mens-prison-announced-clp-gov/107044994

#Capitalism #Privatisation

NATIONAL PRISONERS' HUMAN RIGHTS STRIKE MAY 1 – JUNE 19, 2027

Jailhouse Lawyers Speak (JLS)
https://www.jailhouselawyersspeak.com/new-page

#incarceratedworkers #jailhouselawyers #mayDay #MutualAid #solidarity

https://inquest.org/the-balance-of-power-is-on-our-side/

#incarceratedworkers #MartinSostre

“ We are exploited as commodities and as #forcedlabor. But commodities do not strike. We do. From #MayDay to #Juneteenth we reclaim our power. We refuse to slave."

https://www.jailhouselawyersspeak.com/

The 2027 prison strikers’ demands:
1. END LEGALIZED SLAVERY
2. RESTORE VOTING RIGHTS
3. FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS IN U.S. PRISONS

#incarceratedworkers

Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour” - #incarceratedworkers

(Note: Australia does not have a ban on products made with #forcedlabour
#Leggo suppliers Hetian Latitude is run by the #Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), China state-run paramilitary organisation.)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-27/australian-tomatoes-leggos-coles-aldi-chinese-tests-show/106940742

#4Corners #Capitalism #cheapness #dupes #exploitation #journalism #supermarkets #tomatoes #Uyghur

Wed 8 July 11am-2pm – Western Plains Correctional Centre (Lara, near Geelong)
Thu 9 July 11am-2pm – Marngoneet Correctional Centre (Lara, near Geelong)
Fri 10 July 11am-1pm – Fulham Correctional Centre (near Sale)
Fri 10 July 1-3pm - Loddon Prison (near Castlemaine)

https://www.3cr.org.au/beyondthebars2026

#3CR #communityradio #firstnations #incarceratedworkers

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/crime/2026/07/01/asheville-bookstore-sues-sc-prison-system-for-destroying-their-books/90707985007/

https://www.aol.com/articles/asheville-bookstore-sues-sc-corrections-090528000.html

#Asheville #BookBans #incarceratedworkers #libraries #prisons #SouthCarolina

It’s a torture of the soul 
The narrow confines of control 
Thrown down the stinking hole with no hope of release

It’s just another wasted life 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ2_2A4vP4I

(Interview) Rhiannon Giddens on How Death of Kalief Browder Inspired Her Song
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/19/another_wasted_life_rhiannon_giddens_on

#incarceratedworkers #Juneteenth #RhiannonGiddens

Capo Limbo
how low low low
can you go-go-go ?
$1 a day !
(Capitalists like #GEO are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour” )
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/migrants-ice-detention-law-geo-group-b2996910.html

#Capitalism #DelaneyHall #exploitation #ICEout #incarceratedworkers #labourmovement #migrantworkers #strikes

https://labornotes.org/blogs/2026/05/we-demand-freedom-immigrants-strike-new-jersey-prison

#incarceratedworkers #labourmovement #migrantworkers #NewJersey #organize #strikes

https://www.onebigunion.ie/post/bulldozer-5-the-only-vehicle-for-prison-abolition

#incarceratedworkers #iww #labourmovement #organize #solidarity #unions

Bosses are always keen to “reduce the cost of labour”
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/immigrants-trump-coerced-prison-labor

#Capitalism #exploitation #incarceratedworkers #GEOGroup, #Palantir #CoreCivic
#migrantworkers #minimumwage #workingpoor

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/02/trumps-immigrant-gulags-a-bonanza-for-private-prison-corporations/

https://thenewpress.org/books/the-prison-industry/

#Capitalism #incarceratedworkers #Prisons #Privatization

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/2/ice_jail_alligator_alcatraz_florida

Detention Watch Network (DWN) is a national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States.
https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/

#DeathsinCustody #Florida #Incarceratedworkers #MigrantWorkers

The Alabama Solution
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/29/alabama-solution-documentary-review

See also Ava DuVernay’s 2016 doco The 13th (Amendment which allows slave-like exploitation of convicts)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krfcq5pF8u8

#cinema #documentary #incarceratedworkers #Alabama #The13th

Meme-ing what you say is saying what you #meme ?
#ZuckerMuskian media Era
#SlopWare - dysphemism for today’s “generative” (read: plagiarative) #ai -
#enshittification #incarceratedworkers
#prisonlabour

@theguardian_us_news

Democracy Now
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/14/california_wildfires_incarcerated_firefighters

Marshall Project
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/01/11/los-angeles-palisades-prisoners-firefighters

LA Times
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-11/how-you-can-help-the-incarcerated-firefighters-battling-l-a-wildfires

Pasadena Altadena & Octavia Butler
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/13/palisades_fires

#California #wildfires #LosAngeles #Palisades #Altadena #incarceratedworkers #convictlabor
#the13th

@CrimethInc

Capitalists are always keen to “reduce the cost of labor”

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/1/14/california_wildfires_incarcerated_firefighters

#losangeles #2025 #wildfires #firefighters #incarceratedworkers #BlameCapitalism
#climateCrisis

@igd_news

“ The city’s 2024–2025 budget slashed about $17.6 million from the fire department, while increasing the budget for the city’s police force by $126 million, according to figures from the Los Angeles City Administrative Office."

https://newrepublic.com/post/189997/los-angeles-fire-fighting-budget-wildfires

#LosAngeles #wildfires #convictlabor
#incarceratedworkers