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Articles
It’s Time to Compost the Prison Plantation. Joshua Sbicca and Carrie Chennault. MOLD Magazine
It’s Time to Compost the Prison Plantation. Joshua Sbicca and Carrie Chennault. The Nation
Podcasts and Radio
Compost The Prison Plantation. Ludwig Hurtado. Food Futures Podcast. MOLD Magazine
Forced prison labor persists in Colorado despite a measure meant to outlaw it. Erin O’Toole and Robyn Vincent. In the NOCO. KUNC
Mapping the Unfree Labor of Prison Agriculture: A Conversation with Carrie Chennault and Josh Sbicca by Kristen Billings. Edge Effects.
CSU’s Prison Agriculture Lab researches the roots, impact of the prison agriculture industry. The Audit. College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University.
6.5 Minutes with…Josh Sbicca. C21. Center for 21st Century. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Joshua Sbicca, Ph.D., Director of the Prison Agriculture Lab at Colorado State University. Food Sleuth Radio. KOPN, 89.5
Interviews
When Prisoners Perform Farm Work, Who Benefits? Jack Dodson. Ambrook Research
Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands. Robin McDowell and Margie Mason. Associated Press.
Prison system logic. Kaylee Harter. Boulder Weekly
CSU’s Prison Agriculture Lab Works to Change the Perception of Penal Labor. Helen Xu. Westword.
Factory Farms Are Sourcing Their Cheap Labor From Prisons. Marlena Williams. Sentient Media.
“Essential” and exploitable: Prison factories stayed open during the pandemic. People got sick. H. Claire Brown. The Counter.
How corporations buy—and sell—food made with prison labor. H. Claire Brown. The Counter.
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