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Podcast: The Real News Podcast
Episode: Inside the big business of prison farms and âagricarceralâ slave labor
Description: Private companies and state governments have long exploited the 13th Amendment to create a profitable agribusiness system that runs on prison slave labor. âIf you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, itâs built on dispossession, itâs built on enslavement,â says Joshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of that violence lives on in the big business of âagricarceralâ farming today. In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host and former political prisoner Mansa Musa speaks with Sbicca about the prisoners farming our food, the parties profiting from their exploitation, and the ongoing fig...