Forced Labor, Living Conditions, Opacity and Impunity in Texas Prisons (with Michelle Pitcher)

We’re sharing a recent interview with Michelle Pitcher of the Texas Observer about living conditions and forced labor in the TDCJ, the Texas prison system. You can reach Michelle at pitcher@texasobserver.org or follow her at @michellepitcher.bsky.social . Thank you again so much for the continuing support of this project.

• Transcript
• PDF (Unimposed)
• Zine (Imposed PDF)

• https://www.texasobserver.org/prison-heat-lawsuit-tdcj/
• https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-prison-plantations
• https://www.texasobserver.org/solidarity-prison-labor-union/

Our prior interview with Jason Walker (more of his writings at his blog) can be found here (with a transcript available). And our prior chat with Comrade Z can be found here.