✨ Some news ✨

Read my new In These Times feature on the formerly and currently incarcerated workers who—alongside unions like RWDSU and Union of Southern Service Workers—are suing Alabama over its use of forced labor in prisons and unspoken policy of denying parole to Black workers: inthesetimes.com/article/alabam…

In These Times RWDSU Union of Southern Service Workers “You can’t say, ​‘Hey, I can’t go to work today,’” plaintiff Lakeira Walker told me. ​“You would go to solitary… People were so tired and just hopeless at that point, they would kind of welcome solitary confinement, just to have a break.” inthesetimes.com/article/alabam…