So many people, on both sides of the prison wall, labor under threat of state violence. This opens a path to more robust, far-reaching worker solidarity.

How organizing workers in immigrant detention can serve as a foundation for abolition and liberation for all.

For the past decade, people incarcerated in Alabama have led successful national worker strikes. Could a new prisoners’ rights movement be underway?

How one labor union in New York is organizing and creating solidarity among formerly incarcerated workers—and winning.

A new research project seeks to understand present prison labor conditions—and build a path toward lasting freedom.

The U.S. history of coerced prison work is older—and more northern—than its popular origin story tends to acknowledge.

Calling incarcerated people ‘workers’ displaces the gravity of their situation and obscures the nature of carceral violence.

The carceral state molds and enforces worker compliance, vulnerability, and insecurity—both within and beyond prison walls.