Robin McDowell
LATEST ARTICLES BY Robin McDowell
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Labor
Prisoners in the U.S. are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands
January 31, 2024A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.
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U.S.
Prison labor helped build U.S. capitalists’ business empires
September 23, 2022Companies across the South profited off the forced labor of people in prison after the Civil War—a racist system known as convict leasing.
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World
Top consumer brands, big banks linked to brutal palm oil worker abuses
September 24, 2020Some of the brands you buy every week at the grocery store have links to brutal abuse of workers in Southeast Asia's palm oil industry.
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U.S.
Crime doesn’t pay but prison does, even amidst a pandemic
May 12, 2020As factories and other businesses remain shuttered across America, people in prisons in at least 40 states continue going to work.
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U.S.
Parents fear for their children’s safety as coronavirus hits juvenile jails
April 28, 2020“This could be life or death for my child,” said one mother.
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