Prisons, jails, immigrant detention centers. We know them as places of unfreedom, but we don’t often think about them as places of work. Yet compulsory labor is a key part of incarceration in this country. Sociologist Erin Hatton discusses the state of coerced work in prisons, the lack of worker protections, and how work has been used as a way of dampening prisoner activism. (Encore presentation.)

Resources:

Erin Hatton (ed.), Labor and Punishment: Work In and Out of Prison [1] UC Press, 2021

photo: Hasan Almasi [2] via Unsplash

[1] https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520305342/labor-and-punishment

[2] https://unsplash.com/@hasanalmasi