Liza Jessie Peterson: “Made in Prison” Is the New “Made in China”

'Should companies provide a ‘Made In an American Prison’ label if the product is made in an American jail? Over the last few decades there has been a huge surge of products made in prison factories by inmates. These products—which range from clothes to military equipment and everything in between—are made extremely cheaply because the workers are often paid pennies, if at all. Is this the continuation of slavery? Renowned playwright Liza Jessie Peterson thinks so, and she talks to us about how today’s privatized prison labor problem is a huge human rights problem happening right here on American soil. Peterson's new book is  All Day: A Year of Love and Survival Teaching Incarcerated Kids at Rikers Island .'