1. And in many states, private businesses can legally hire prison labor. 2. As a result, many small businesses are complaining that they are being forced to compete for government contracts with prison labor. 3. Binder clips produced by prison labor according to the U.S. Customs Service who provided this photo from a video. 4. -- Create a task force for monitoring prison labor in China, and authorize U.S. Customs officials to visit alleged convict labor sites. 5. After two years of hard prison labor, a disgraced Oscar Wilde emerged from Reading Gaol, bankrupted and broken in spirit. 6. But after a six-week probe, bank officials announced they had found no ties between any of their projects and prison labor. 7. But the bank says it has assurances from the Chinese authorities that prison labor would not be used in the resettlement project. 8. China has broken a raft of agreements on everything from prison labor to intellectual property protection to weapons proliferation, she said. 9. For example, child labor is internationally outlawed and goods made by prison labor are barred from entry to the United States. 10. For years, China has violated its own pledges and international agreements on matters ranging from weapons transfers to prison labor and generally gotten away with it. |