Corporations are lined up to receive a portion of the public funds used to support the self-perpetuating incarceration industry. States such as California spend more public funds, tax dollars, your money, my money, on prisons than for education and schools. Each one of these companies to a greater or lesser extent are making profit from the 2.2 million people being held captive within the prison industry. Many of the following companies listed are solely concerned with prisons, others such as the drug company Bristol-Myers are advertising to just one aspect of the industry. Prison by definition as codified in the thirteenth amendment of the United States Constitution can hold people in slavery and involuntary servitude.
Prison labor is slave labor at worst and coerced cooperation at best.
It is a growing phenomena in the prison industrial complex. Some of the advertisements listed below deal with prison labor issues. The telecommunications providers make exorbitant profit from prisoner telephone calls, the vast majority of which are collect to the prisoner's family and loved ones. Think about it, these companies are all making profit from the incarceration of human beings under conditions which cause suffering to the prisoners, their families and loved ones, the guards and administrators who hold them captive, and the social fabric of our communities. Socially responsible investment demands that capital be moved elsewhere in support of the common good - the social economy, that which supports the community of all people, that which underpins the materialistic economy.