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Human Trafficking in American Prisons: Forced Labor and the Law in the For-Profit Corrections Environment
Chapter One
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Introduction
Thirteenth Amendment’s punishment clause: No prison labor in the United States can be called slavery
Explosion on incarceration rates, long detention of immigrants, rapid growth of the for-profit industry, and longer sentences in for-profit prisons in the context of human trafficking
Trafficking in Persons Reports rejects the concepts of abuse of power and abuse of vulnerability
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3. The Rise of Labor and Convict Leasing in United States Prisons
The use of hard physical labor in prisons emerged at the end of the sixteenth century
Convict leasing (1865)
Black codes
For-profit prison industry
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4. The Capitalization of Prison Labor by Private, For-Profit Prisons
Private prisons are privately owned business corporations that house or treat convicted prisoners
Corrections Corporation of America and the GEO Group
Contractual partnerships:
Institution owned and operated by either the government or private prison company
Owned by the government and subcontracted to the private prison company
Owned by a private prison company and subcontracted to the government to operate and/or by lease purchase agreement
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19% federal inmates held in private prisons; 7% of state inmates held in private prisons
Earning a private prison contract is similar to earning a governmental or academic grant
Private prisons may not be as cost efficient or offer the same quality of life as government-run facilities
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