Prison labor in the Canadian context. Some Canadian coverage of the L.A. fires has noted that provincial prisoners in British Columbia also work in a wildfire suppression program. However, little ...

Ashland is a minimum-security prison, with a minimum-security camp connected to it. Many of the prisoners serve short-term sentences or are nearing the end of their sentences at regional prisons.

An imprisoned Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest has been sent 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from his parish in Russian-occupied ...

Gulag Article "New Yorker" [PDF]* - the author travels to former labor camp prisons and documents on the details he saw. His tour guide, Sergei Lunev, described the places to the author from his ...

As California wildfires raged, incarcerated exploited for labor Inmates get little training to become firefighters, are paid as little as $2.90 per day and, until now, were blocked from the ...

Washington — Paul Whelan, the American businessman who the U.S. considers to be wrongfully detained by Russia, was attacked Tuesday by a fellow prisoner at the labor camp where he is serving a ...

Shin Dong-hyuk is the first person born in a North Korean political prison to get out and tell his story. He was spawned from a "reward marriage," the forced breeding of prisoners on special holidays.

It is estimated that $11 billion in prison labor is used annually, from making hand sanitizer and digging mass graves during COVID-19 to cleaning up hazardous materials.

His interaction with nearly 1,000 incarcerated firefighters from Washington Ridge Conservation Camp 44 brought unprecedented attention to a system ... California’s wildfire crisis and prison labor.

Several lawmakers and advocates have described using prison labor for about $1 per hour as inhumane. Democratic Attorney General Aaron Ford previously said the practice reminded him of “convict ...

A portion of inmates who work in fire crews — and are based in separate conservation camps that provide intensive wildfire training — would see the greatest income hike under the prison system ...