"Every prisoner confined in Texas is forced to work without pay. ... Only those very few with documented serious medical or mental health conditions which impair work performance, and those held in the TDCJ’s torturous segregation units, are not made to work. Often those with documented medical and mental health exemptions are still forced to work – their exemptions being simply ignored. Those who refuse to work are punished, thrown in segregated confinement, and their imprisonment is typically extended."
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Kevin Rashid Johnson "Razor Wire Plantations: Amerika’s Ongoing Addiction to Slavery, Cruelty and Genocide," Turning the Tide, vol. 27, no. 1 (2014)
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