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McDonald’s, KFC, Burger King and Wendy’s Rely on Alabama Prison “Slavery” (truthout.org)

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Incarcerated Alabamans and labor organizations have filed a federal class action lawsuit to dismantle the forced prison labor system in the state, which rakes in $450 million annually from leasing incarcerated people to companies like McDonald’s, KFC, Burger King and Wendy’s.

Leasing people reduces them to the status of property which literal slavery.

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