Many of us borrow our understanding of prison labor from pop culture. Think Shawshank Redemption, men tarring roofs paid in cigarettes and beers. But, as we recently learned, the truth is very different.
telecom
New rules from the Federal Communications Commission are putting the brakes on the prison telecom industry’s exploitative practices.
death penalty
States are looking for new ways to execute people, and now they’re implicating South Carolinians. Whether it be a firing squad, the electric chair, or suffocation by nitrogen gas, South Carolina has its hand in calling for each. In our name, they are forsaking one of God’s most sacred principles, “Thou shalt not kill." For the sake of our souls, we must stop them.
