Next100 policy entrepreneur Vidal Guzman penned a piece for the New York Daily News, connected to the launch of the #FixThe13thNY campaign to end forced labor in New York State’s prisons. Vidal writes:

“In New York State, many of the 30,000-plus people incarcerated — a population that is 50% Black and 22% Hispanic — are forced to work, producing upwards of $53 million in annual revenue for the state through Corcraft, a division of the Department of Corrections. Yet the average detainee in New York State prisons earns just $0.65 an hour, without access to any federal or state worker protections.”

Read “Being imprisoned shouldn’t mean being enslaved” here. The #FixThe13thNY campaign page is here.