Imprisonment & Reform

27th May 1995
Image location: 52°26’21.5”N 1°53’32.2”W
Woodcarving, 1995 | Yew Branch from HELIOS Gallery‘s Valentine Road Garden

FOREGROUND:
(Photograph) Þóra Pétursdóttir; Norway
Unused World War 2 Materials

"For private business prison labour is like a pot of gold. No strike. No union organizing. No health benefits, unemployment insurance, or workers’ compensation to pay. No language barriers, as in foreign countries. New leviathan prisons are being built on thousands of eerie acres of factories inside the walls. Prisoners do data entry for Chevron, make telephone reservations for TWA, raise hogs, shovel manure, and make circuit boards, limousines, waterbeds, and lingerie for Victoria’s Secret, all at a fraction of the cost of ‘free labour.’"

— Linda Evans and Eve Goldberg
From ‘Are Prisons Obselete?’ by Angela Y. Davis
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