Four states voted to remove language from their constitutions that allow prisons to require incarcerated people to work.
Ahead of the midterms, Candace Bond-Theriault, director of racial justice policy and strategy at Columbia Law School’s Center for Gender & Sexuality Law, authored a policy brief examining the impact of compulsory prison labor on incarcerated pregnant and postpartum people of color.
The brief’s initial goal to determine how these reforms would impact incarcerated pregnant and postpartum women of color faced significant challenges due to the lack of data, publicly available and otherwise, kept by or required of state’s prison systems. Race also impacts what work details women are given. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, incarcerated women of color are more likely to be given involuntary field and manual labor assignments — such as picking cotton or corn — compared with incarcerated White women, who are more likely to be given desk jobs.
In the brief, Bond-Theriault uses Nuevelle’s story during her incarceration in the federal prison system to illuminate what the advocate says is an all too common experience of pregnant and postpartum people who are incarcerated across the board. While advocates see the recent ballot measures as a step in the right direction, they note that they don’t force states to make immediate changes to their prison policies. The main impact is to open the door to legal challenges over coerced labor.
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