How Slavery Survived & What Prison Labor Reveals About America

Slavery didn’t vanish—it moved behind prison walls. We pull back the curtain on the 13th Amendment’s punishment clause, the economics of captive labor, and why a system built on coercion and deprivation keeps people cycling back inside. Through lived experience, we examine the gap between “justice” on paper and daily life in state facilities where field squads work in brutal heat or freezing cold, wages range from pennies to nothing, and essentials like calls and email cost a premium. D...