Penal labour

We're talking about material and making.

I've gotten so deep into the broom, uh, my most recent pieces were about labor, and prison labor specifically.

It is a, an object that can Take you anywhere.

[laughs] You can ride on it anywhere, I guess.

You know, it's this object I really love to make.

It, it carries such a fascinating history, and we cannot deny the romance of the old, with an E on the end of it, handmade.

Um, but it was also a vehicle for prison labor.

Bummer.

Under a five-year contract, dated July 7, 1906, and renewable for five years more at the option of private contractors, the labor of the inmates of the Rhode Island Penitentiary and the Providence County Jail is sold to the Reliance Sterling Manufacture Company at the rate of a trifle less than twenty-five cents a day per man.

This company is really a gigantic prison labor trust, for it also leases the convict labor of Connecticut, Michigan, Indiana, Nebraska, and South Dakota penitentiaries and the reformatories of New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin—eleven establishments in all.

The enormity of the graft under the Rhode Island contract may be estimated from the fact that this same company pays sixty-two and a half cents a day in Nebraska for the convict's labor, and that Tennessee, for example, gets a dollar ten a day for a convict's work from the Gray Dudley Hardware Company.

Missouri gets seventy cents a day from the Star Overall Manufacturing Company, West Virginia sixty-five cents a day from the Kraft Manufacturing Company, and Maryland fifty-five cents a day from Oppenheim, Oberndorf, and Company shirt manufacturers.

For example, the Reliance Sterling Manufacturing Company manufactures shirts, the cost of free labor being not less than a dollar twenty per dozen, while it pays Rhode Island thirty cents a dozen.

Furthermore, the state charges this trust no rent for the use of its huge factory, charges nothing for power, heat, light, or even drainage, and exacts no taxes.

What graft! It is estimated that more than twelve million dollars worth of working men's shirts and overalls is produced annually in this country by prison labor.

It is a woman's industry, and the first reflection that arises is that an immense amount of free female labor is thus displaced.

Under a five-year contract, dated July 7, 1906, and renewable for five years more at the option of private contractors, the labor of the inmates of the Rhode Island Penitentiary and the Providence County Jail is sold to the Reliance Sterling Manufacture Company at the rate of a trifle less than twenty-five cents a day per man.

This company is really a gigantic prison labor trust, for it also leases the convict labor of Connecticut, Michigan, Indiana, Nebraska, and South Dakota penitentiaries and reformatories of New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, eleven establishments in all.

The enormity of the graft under the Rhode Island contract may be estimated from the fact that this same company pays sixty-two and a half cents a day in Nebraska for the convict's labor, and that Tennessee, for example, gets $1.10 a day for a convict's work from the Gray Dudley Hardware Company.

Missouri gets seventy cents a day from the Star Overall Manufacturing Company, West Virginia sixty-five cents a day from the Kraft Manufacturing Company, and Maryland fifty-five cents a day from Oppenheim, Oberndorf, and Company shirt manufacturers.

For example, the Reliance Sterling Manufacturing Company manufactures shirts, the cost of free labor being not less than $1.20 per dozen, while it pays Rhode Island thirty cents a dozen.

Furthermore, the state charges this trust no rent for the use of its huge factory, charges nothing for power, heat, light, or even drainage, and exacts no taxes.

What graft! It is estimated that more than twelve million dollars worth of working men's shirts and overalls is produced annually in this country by prison labor.

It is a woman's industry, and the first reflection that arises is that an immense amount of free female labor is thus displaced.

Under a five-year contract, dated July 7, 1906, and renewable for five years more at the option of private contractors, the labor of the inmates of the Rhode Island Penitentiary and the Providence County Jail is sold to the Reliance Sterling Manufacture Company at the rate of a trifle less than twenty-five cents a day per man.

This company is really a gigantic prison labor trust, for it also leases the convict labor of Connecticut, Michigan, Indiana, Nebraska, and South Dakota penitentiaries and reformatories of New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, eleven establishments in all.

The enormity of the graft under the Rhode Island contract may be estimated from the fact that this same company pays sixty-two and a half cents a day in Nebraska for the convict's labor, and that Tennessee, for example, gets $1.10 a day for a convict's work from the Gray Dudley Hardware Company.

Missouri gets seventy cents a day from the Star Overall Manufacturing Company, West Virginia sixty-five cents a day from the Kraft Manufacturing Company, and Maryland fifty-five cents a day from Oppenheim, Oberndorf, and Company shirt manufacturers.

For example, the Reliance Sterling Manufacturing Company manufactures shirts, the cost of free labor being not less than $1.20 per dozen, while it pays Rhode Island thirty cents a dozen.

Furthermore, the state charges this trust no rent for the use of its huge factory, charges nothing for power, heat, light, or even drainage, and exacts no taxes.

What graft! It is estimated that more than $12 million worth of working men's shirts and overalls is produced annually in this country by prison labor.

It is a woman's industry, and the first reflection that arises is that an immense amount of free female labor is thus displaced.

America's military industrial complex runs on prison slave labor.

16 of the top 45 defense contractors use U.S. prison labor to make their products.

Incarcerated Americans make components for F-15 and F-16 jets, Patriot missiles, and Bradley fighting vehicles.

It's about American jobs, Brad.

Meanwhile, Louisiana prisoners on work release built warships for Northrop Grumman.

Giant defense contractors such as Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and General Dynamics use prison labor to keep costs down and profits high.

fucking unbelievable because like we just talked about like we literally don't even have the things that they that they're supposed to be building like they're not even making a sufficient amount of them to fight a war with a mid-range power like iran not that we should be at war with ron or that there's anything that would have made that any easier but like we don't even have fucking we don't even have the bullets for the big fucking guns that are supposed to shoot these things out of the sky

Right, but they are recording disgusting profits.

Under a five-year contract, dated July 7, 1906, and renewable for five years more at the option of private contractors, the labor of the inmates of the Rhode Island Penitentiary and the Providence County Jail is sold to the Reliance Sterling Manufacture Company at the rate of a trifle less than twenty-five cents a day per man.

This company is really a gigantic prison labor trust, for it also leases the convict labor of Connecticut, Michigan, Indiana, Nebraska, and South Dakota penitentiaries and reformatories of New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, eleven establishments in all.

The enormity of the graft under the Rhode Island contract may be estimated from the fact that this same company pays sixty-two and a half cents a day in Nebraska for the convict's labor, and that Tennessee, for example, gets a dollar ten a day for a convict's work from the Gray Dudley Hardware Company.

Missouri gets seventy cents a day from the Star Overall Manufacturing Company, West Virginia sixty-five cents a day from the Kraft Manufacturing Company, and Maryland fifty-five cents a day from Oppenheim, Oberndorf, and Company, shirt manufacturers.

For example, the Reliance Sterling Manufacturing Company manufactures shirts, the cost of free labor being not less than a dollar twenty per dozen, while it pays Rhode Island thirty cents a dozen.

Furthermore, the state charges this trust no rent for the use of its huge factory, charges nothing for power, heat, light, or even drainage, and exacts no taxes.

What graft! It is estimated that more than twelve million dollars worth of working men's shirts and overalls is produced annually in this country by prison labor.

It is a woman's industry, and the first reflection that arises is that an immense amount of free female labor is thus displaced.