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Barges sit docked at the Louis Dreyfus Holding Co. along the Mississippi Riverlast year in Port Allen, La. Louis Dreyfus and other commodity traders have scooped up millions of dollars’ worth of soy, corn and wheat straight from prison farms.

Barges sit docked at the Louis Dreyfus Holding Co. along the Mississippi Riverlast year in Port Allen, La. Louis Dreyfus and other commodity traders have scooped up millions of dollars’ worth of soy, corn and wheat straight from prison farms.

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Prisoners in the U.S. are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands

A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source — a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.