BATON ROUGE — Breakfast at Louisiana’s state Capitol includes fresh coffee, cookies and egg sandwiches — made and served in part by incarcerated people working for no pay.
‘You’re a slave’: Inside Louisiana’s forced prison labor and a failed overhaul attempt
In recent years there has been a growing movement to prevent forced labor in prisons for little or no pay. But in a state that has one of the highest incarceration rates in the country, the debate is unsettled.
Updated January 3, 2023 at 11:38 p.m. EST|Published January 1, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EST