The Southern Poverty Law Center has produced an in-depth article about the Alabama Prison System sending inmates into Alabama poultry plants on "work release"...
"The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) continues to send hundreds of prisoners to work for private companies, generating nearly $11 million a year for the perennially underfunded agency."
The article paints the poultry work as dangerous, and in one case, deadly:
At 4:15 p.m., he made a right angle with his left arm and reached into the machine to scrub it down. His arm was close to a rotating toothed disc called a sunflower wheel. Too close. In an instant, the wheel’s teeth gashed into his forearm and caught on. Ellington screamed. The machine pulled him into its maw of stainless steel. He died immediately.
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