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tayloline29 t1_ixccqyb wrote

Reply to comment by Available-Subject-33 in How do you find out whether companies manufacture their products morally and sustainably? by Dokayn

A non comprehensive list of the companies that fall under a regulatory body and are known to use prison labor.

IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, Compaq, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Nortel, Lucent Technologies, 3Com, Intel, Northern Telecom, TWA, Nordstrom’s, Revlon, Macy’s, Pierre Cardin, Target Stores

While a small percentage of prison labor lies within one specific federally-regulated program, the vast majority exists in state, federal, and private prisons that have no centralized regulatory body. Prison labor is pervasive in the United States penal system, but the extent to which that labor is used to supply American corporations with goods and services is shrouded in secrecy.

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Available-Subject-33 t1_ixe14j2 wrote

Except most of the companies you listed aren't ones that tout around "Made In The USA."

Go to a shopping center and look around for products that proudly display a Made In The USA tag on their packaging. You'll find that most of them are products from smaller businesses that focus on a select range of products, not giant megacorporations like Microsoft. They're generally more expensive, higher quality, and better designed.

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