Inmates in U.S. private prisons become cheap laborers: experts

STORY: Inmates in U.S. private prisons become cheap laborers: experts DATELINE: June 30, 2022 LENGTH: 0:01:31 LOCATION: Beijing CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1 SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): RAUL CAPOTE, Editor-in-Chief of Cuban newspaper Granma International 2 SOUNDBITE 2 (English): ROMARILYN RALSTON, Program Director of California State University's Project Rebound STORYLINE: The United States has the world's largest private prison population. Since 2000, the number of people housed in private prisons has increased by 32 percent compared to an overall rise in the prison population of 3 percent. In the private prisons, many have been suffering from forced labor without any legal protection. SOUNDBITE 1 (Spanish): RAUL CAPOTE, Editor-in-Chief of Cuban newspaper Granma International "The fact that immigration is being criminalized in the U.S. facilitates a constant flow of cheap labor to those prisons. Many of these people fall into a legal limbo because they are imprisoned without having been brought to trial, w

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