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Sunday, March 21, 2004

Parole: Slave Labor

Barbara Fair, a coordinator with People Against Injustice, a grassroots organization pushing for prison reform, said the "war on drugs" really is a war on people, and using prisoners and parolees as free labor is slavery.

"These people can’t be on a plantation legally anymore. We just don’t have them in chains anymore. But we’re slowly being enslaved again," she said.

Minorities constitute the majority of people incarcerated and on parole.

Fair said the program should be eliminated, so parolees can use the time now spent along the highways for mandates such as job searches and employment training.

Her son, Kyron Tucker, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, suspended after six, for a drug offense. He was paroled last December and found a telemarketing job before the date he was to begin the Parole Works program.

Tucker said a parole officer threatened to send him back to prison if he did not find work, but Everett said parolees are not reincarcerated for lack of employment.

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