Prisons often frame agricultural forced labor as “rehabilitation,” but incarcerated people say their working conditions are dehumanizing

Working in agricultural operations inside prison comes with a range of health risks. Based on publicly available sources, such as government reports, media coverage, and investigations by advocacy …

Members of the Agroecology Research-Action Collective argue against the productivist logic underlying the "feed-the-world" approaches to feed security.

Today, nearly two million people are confined in various correctional facilities across the country, with about 800,000 engaged in prison labor, most of it compulsory.

“If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession, it’s built on enslavement,” says Joshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of ...

Join Canadian Food Studies for an online discussion in celebration of the launch of "Carceral Food Systems: Tensions, Experiences and Possibilities", a themed section of the most recent issue of Canad...

Canadian Food Studies is an open-access, online journal about food and food systems, published by the Canadian Association for Food Studies.

Prison food has become a tool of carceral control.

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Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable group—incarcerated people.

Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable group—incarcerated people.

Lacking an available pool of migrant labor, the United Stated has historically turned to another vulnerable group—incarcerated people.

A collaborative focused on agricultural practices in the criminal punishment system

We should rescue the Housatonic and clean it as we have never in all the years thought before of cleaning it, and seek to restore its ancient beauty; making it the center of a town, of a valley, and p...