Fashion brands using prison labor

February 22, 2019

Female inmates at a prison in Peru are sewing clothing for resale in the non-incarcerated world. The premise of the program is that it provides inmates with job training and some income, but some question if fashion brands should be profiting from the fruits of prison labor.

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