Incarcerated Firefighters
As the world contends with the coronavirus, and the United States reckons with systemic racism, the West Coast is being ravaged by wildfires. Climate change which has led to “otter temperatures, less dependable precipitation...
Race and Intersectional Identities within Modern Slavery and Human Rights
2020 has been an unprecedented year for many communities across the world as we face the impact of COVID-19. Families that come from low economic backgrounds are losing their employment with no way of...
Is Prison Labor Hiding in Your Portfolio?
The descendants of slaves continue to be disproportionately imprisoned as if forever destined to be the source of cheap production costs and wide profit margins. In today’s markets, cheap labor is an avidly sought...
The Protesters and Prison Labor
Human Trafficking Search stands with the protestors and their work to reform systems that entrench inequality and injustice, including mass incarceration of African-Americans. As the Black Lives Matter movement moves to Congress and seeks new...
Human Trafficking and Prison Labor, Part 3: Incarcerated Workers and COVID-19
This is the final part in a three-part blog series authored by Polaris to introduce the issue. The first two blogs focused on how human trafficking and prison labor are connected and the
Human Trafficking and Prison Labor, Part 2: Understanding the Types of Prison Labor
Most people assume that in 1865 with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment slavery in the United States was abolished. However, forced labor still exists in the United States today through the exception built into...