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Mike Elk on Democracy Now! about "The Hidden History of ALEC & Prison Labor" in The Nation
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7:23Now PlayingDemocracyNow.org - Many of the toughest sentencing laws responsible for the explosion of the U.S. population were drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council, which helps corporations write model legislation. Now a new exposé reveals ALEC has paved the way for states and corporations to replace unionized workers with prison labor. Democracy Now! interviews Mike Elk, contributing labor reporter at The Nation magazine, whose latest article is called, ""The Hidden History of ALEC & Prison Labor." He says ALEC and private prison companies, "put a massive amount of people in jail and created a situation where they could exploit that." Elk notes that in 2005 more than 40 million pounds of beef infected with rat feces processed by inmates were not recalled in order to drawing attention to how many products are made by prison labor.
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