By Amaya Flores-Montero, age 11 and IndyKids Staff Thousands of prisoners across Alabama went on strike in Sept. 2022 demanding better working conditions and improved medical and mental health treatment. The Equal Justice Initiative found that Alabama incarcerates people at a higher rate than any other state, and their prisons are also the deadliest in …
By Freya-Victoria Sansing, age 11 For companies all over the world, unions have been controversial as long as they have existed. According to Labor Department data, in 2022 the percentage of union memberships went down significantly, yet support for unions is at an all-time high. An August Gallup poll discovered that 71% of Americans support …
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By Jessie Mitnick, age 13
The Abolition Amendment aims to revise the 13th Constitutional Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States. These representatives are fighting a so-called loophole in the 13th Amendment, which allows for involuntary servitude to continue as a form of criminal punishment.
Prison labor is a program where prisoners work for less than minimum wage while they are in jail. Colorado’s strict immigration laws have kept immigrants out of the state and off the farms, so now prisoners are doing more of the farmwork.
