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BP Hires Prison Labor to Clean Up Spill While Coastal Residents Struggle | The Nation:<\/a><\/p>\n

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In the first few days after BP’s Deepwater Horizon wellhead exploded, spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, cleanup workers could be seen on Louisiana beaches wearing scarlet pants and white t-shirts with the words “Inmate Labor” printed in large red block letters. Coastal residents, many of whom had just seen their livelihoods disappear, expressed outrage at community meetings; why should BP be using cheap or free prison labor when so many people were desperate for work? The outfits disappeared overnight.<\/p>\n

Work crews in Grand Isle, Louisiana, still stand out. In a region where nine out of ten residents are white, the cleanup workers are almost exclusively African-American men. The racialized nature of the cleanup is so conspicuous that Ben Jealous, the president of the NAACP, sent a public letter<\/a> to BP CEO Tony Hayward on July 9, demanding to know why black people were over-represented in “the most physically difficult, lowest paying jobs, with the most significant exposure to toxins.”<\/p>\n

Hiring prison labor is more than a way for BP to save money while cleaning up the biggest oil spill in history. By tapping into the inmate workforce, the company and its subcontractors get workers who are not only cheap but easily silenced\u2014and they get lucrative tax write-offs in the process.<\/p>\n

(Click the link above for rest of the article, it’s worth it)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here’s the interesting part in all of this disaster: taxpayers are footing the bill for this clean up thrice: 1) the prison system is funded by the state 2) through BP’s tax write-offs 3) the massive destruction caused by the oil spill that will result in the loss of jobs, opportunities, health care problems for the residents, etc, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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