The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.

The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.

  • @[email protected]English
    26•5 months ago

    https://marketrealist.com/p/companies-that-use-prison-labor/#what-are-some-companies-that-use-prison-labor

    • Verizon uses inmates to provide telecommunication services.
    • Fidelity Investments uses some held assets to fund the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization that promotes inmate work.
    • Kmart and JCPenney use inmate labor in Tennessee to make denim products.
    • Walmart uses prison labor to clean barcodes so products can be resold.
    • Some cheese and fish from Whole Foods comes from prison labor.
    • Circuit boards from IBM come from Texas prisoners.
    • Wendy’s and McDonald’s use prison labor to process beef for their food products.
    • Amazon uses BOP labor for cleaning and sorting damaged goods
      • @chiliedogg
        4•5 months ago

        Idaho only has prisoners, potatoes, and gun-totin’ white supremacists.

        What else are they gonna do?

    • Flying Squid
      3•5 months ago

      I thought Kmart went out of business?

      • Jojo, Lady of the West
        4•5 months ago

        Wikipedia states:

        Kmart, formerly legally registered as Kmart Corporation, now operated by Transformco, is an online retailer in the United States and operates six remaining Kmart big-box department stores — 3 in the US Virgin Islands and one each in Kendale Lakes, Florida (Miami postal address); Bridgehampton, Long Island; and Tamuning, Guam.

        But also

        On January 22, 2002, Kmart filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection under the leadership of its then-chairman Charles Conaway and president Mark Schwartz.

        So they’ve been a subsidiary to several other companies since then.

        • Flying Squid
          2•5 months ago

          Ah, so they’re not quite dead yet, they’re just headed for a hedge fund buying them and killing them off.