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Alander Rocha
Inmates Challenge Motion to Dismiss in Alabama Forced Labor Federal Lawsuit
12 Jun 2024
The lawsuit against Alabama state officials, agencies, local governments, and private companies for their involvement in the prison labor program continues. Prisoners now must fight a wave of motions…
Center for Constitutional Rights
Imprisoned Workers Bring State Lawsuit to Abolish Involuntary Servitude in Alabama’s Prisons
08 May 2024
On International Workers’ Day, the suit challenges the constitutionality of government actions to punish resistance to forced labor among the majority-Black prison population.
Raymond Nat Turner, BAR poet-in-residence
Manchild in the land of cotton
16 Aug 2023
Man-child in the land of cotton
Kriston Dowdell
Super (Maxed Out): The Demise of Alabama Prisons
28 Jun 2023
In Alabama Covid funds are used for prison construction, opportunities for the incarcerated to be released have been eliminated, and violence is rampant. Alabama makes the case for prison abolition.
Haley Czarnek
"Society Has Shut Down On Us:" Prison Strikers Across Alabama Demand Change Despite Severe Retaliation
12 Oct 2022
The 13th amendment allows slavery for incarcerated people. The state of Alabama pays nothing for prison labor, rarely grants parole, and retaliates against those who protest unsanitary and unsafe…
Saladin Muhammad
Bessemer Alabama Amazon Workers Continue Struggle to Unionize
23 Mar 2022
The mostly Black labor force at an Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama will have a second opportunity to vote for unionization.