Nebraska, Utah Vote to Eliminate Slavery as Punishment for a Crime
Slavery or involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime is legal in the United States and that must end. The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude for most, but...
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