Sylvester Hameline works last August with the milking equipment in the dairy at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge, Mont. The U.S. has a history of locking up more people than any other country, and goods tied to prison labor have morphed into a massive multibillion-dollar empire, extending far beyond the classic images of people stamping license plates or working on road crews.
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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.
