Title

Editorial: Exploitation of prison labor reflects America's disenfranchisement problem

Document Type

Editorial

Authors

Liz Theriault

Date

2-24-2020

Keywords

Prison labor, Prison reform, Economic exploitation

Files

Description

In December of 2019, presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg released a statement confirming that his campaign exploited prison workers in Oklahoma to make calls for his 2020 campaign. Bloomberg’s campaign employed ProCom through a third party vendor, and two of the company’s call centers in Oklahoma are based in out-of-state prisons. Bloomberg has since denounced any prior knowledge of this campaign practice and has ceased working with ProCom. Yet, exploiting prisoners for campaign efforts is a symbol of irony, capturing the unfair disenfranchisement of prisoners and ex-convicts in the United States.

Identifier

Racial Justice_Maine Campus_2021_01_17g

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Recommended Citation

Theriault, Liz, "Editorial: Exploitation of prison labor reflects America's disenfranchisement problem" (2020). University of Maine Racial Justice Collection. 193.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/racial_justice/193