Tag: Forced Labor
A pizza shop owner is sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for threatening workers with deportation
BOSTON -- The owner of two Boston-area pizza shops convicted of forced labor for using physical violence and threats of reprisal or deportation...
US bans new types of goods from China over allegations of forced labor
WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security announced Wednesday that it would ban the import of goods from a Chinese steel manufacturer and...
Prisoners fight against working in heat on former slave plantation, raising hope for change in South
Beneath the blazing summer sun on a former slave plantation, Lamont Gross and fellow prisoners stooped in long rows, picking vegetables by hand...
As temperatures soar, judge tells Louisiana to help protect prisoners working in fields
Amid blistering summer temperatures, a federal judge ordered Louisiana to take steps to protect the health and safety of incarcerated workers toiling in...