By Mike Diago from The Bittman Project

Excerpt:

“Moving forward, as the director of the Let Us Contribute Initiative (LUCI), he wants inmates to form cooperatives, wherein they can start businesses and share revenue among themselves rather than being subjected to doing work they dread for between 8 and 74 cents per hour. … But to create worker cooperatives inside prisons, let alone farm prison land, takes legislative action. So LUCI partnered with the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC) and created a legislative draft for which they are working to garner support.”

Read the full article here.

(Originally published January 21, 2025)