U.S. prison system a corporate-run ‘neo-slavery’ trap

‘In a recent interview with investigative journalist Ben Swann, Hedges said that many inmates work eight hours a day for major corporations like Motorola, Chevron, Nordstrom’s and Target, but only earn up to $1.25 an hour. Also, he maintains, companies that provide services like phone calls to inmates often overcharge them for even the most basic of services, earning them hundreds of millions of dollars per year.

Meanwhile, as Swann notes in the introduction, offenders can also amass huge amounts of debt — “debt that can send someone back to prison, even if they’ve served their time.”‘

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