MK Analytics’ co-founder Lacey Keller has been retained by plaintiffs in Case No. 2:23-cv-00712-CLM-JTA in the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
Her work includes a declaration in support of plaintiffs dated December 20th, 2023.
Corporate America Never Really Quit Forced Labor
Bloomberg Businessweek | By Josh Eidelson
May 11, 2024
Inmates do billions of dollars of work for companies and governments each year. A landmark lawsuit alleges many are being kept in prison because the business is just too good.
Prisoners Sue Alabama, Calling Prison Labor System a ‘Form of Slavery’
The New York Times | By Michael Levenson
Dec. 12, 2023
A group of current and former prisoners sued Alabama on Tuesday, saying that the state’s system of prison labor is a “modern-day form of slavery” that forces them to work, often for little or no money, for the benefit of government agencies and private businesses.
In the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, the 10 plaintiffs, who are all Black, say the state regularly denies incarcerated people parole so that they can be “leased” out to produce hundreds of millions of dollars in profits for local and state agencies and businesses every year.
Lawsuit alleges Alabama prisons using forced labor
Alabama Reflector | By ALANDER ROCHA
Dec. 13, 2023
Alabama’s prison labor program system is a form of modern-day slavery, according to a 126-page lawsuit filed by former and currently incarcerated Alabamians, unions and civil rights organizations on Tuesday morning.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama in Montgomery, alleges that Alabama prison labor is sustained by punishing those who refuse to work or those who encourage other prisoners to refuse to work. It also accuses public and private entities, ranging from local governments to fast food restaurants and grocery stores, of benefitting from the labor.
Image: Brian Lyman/Alabama Reflector
