The forced laborers working on these new American plantations are paid mere pennies on the hour—if at all. Meanwhile, prison labor generates an estimated $1 billion per year. Federal Prison Industries, also known as UNICOR, is a government-owned prison labor program that has begun marketing its incarcerated workers’ services to companies who want to avoid the costs associated with outsourcing their business and flaunt a “Made in America” label while paying next to nothing for slave labor right here at home.
