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Episode: US prison labor tied to some of the worldβs most popular food brands
Description: A hidden intricate web links hundreds of popular food brands to work done by US prisoners.
A two-year Associated Press (AP) investigation found that everything from grains, meat, eggs, and milk had been grown, harvested, or produced by incarcerated people and their labor finds its way into the supply chains of some of the most recognized brands and largest food companies in the world.
The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime.
AP spoke to prisoners who were working on plantation soil, many were making pennies an hour. Some getting...