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Convicts are returning to farming – anti-immigrant policies are the reason

  • Written by Stian Rice, Food systems geographer, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Migrant agricultural workers kept out of the US by tough immigration laws are now being replaced by prison labor.Shutterstock

Prison inmates are picking fruits and vegetables at a rate not seen since Jim Crow.

Convict leasing for agriculture – a system that allows states to sell prison labor to private farms – became infamous in the late...

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