CoreCivic, the second-largest U.S. private prison company, is forcing detainees to perform work for next to no pay. Why is a company worth $1.7 billion paying these detainees as little as a dollar a day? To minimize costs and boost profits.

Tell CoreCivic to #EndPrisonSlavery

What’s worse, these abuses – which arguably violate federal laws – are occurring at immigration detention centers. The people held in these facilities have not necessarily even been convicted of a crime.

CoreCivic faces several lawsuits, as detainees share stories of being coerced with the threat of solitary confinement, losing visitation rights, and being unable to afford phone calls to families and lawyers when they refuse to work. Yet, this forced labor is being portrayed as “voluntary”.

This month, we will be asking hard questions about forced labor in detention:

• Who stands to gain from this system of forced labor?
• How does exploitation undercut local jobs?
• Is this truly intended as rehabilitation, or merely exploitation?

The answers may shock and outrage you, if you believe no debt to society justifies slavery.

In solidarity,

Joanna and the Freedom United team

P.S. For more on how the 13th amendment loophole is being used to exploit people for profit, we recommend Ava DuVernay’s critically acclaimed documentary ‘13th’, available now on Netflix.