Mary Smith

Mary Smith, a quiet organizer who initiated Prisoners’ Rights Alliance (PRA) with a vision to unify individual advocates and victims into a loose but powerful alliance. PRA is a grassroots advocacy network dedicated to ending forced labor in U.S. prisons, amplifying the voices of incarcerated individuals, and exposing systemic human rights abuses behind bars. X: https://x.com/PRightsAlliance

Slavery by Another Name: Forced Labor in Georgia Prisons

Prisoner planting crops at Georgia prison, inmates in orange uniform working outdoors, highlighting issues of incarceration and forced labor in Georgia, Georgia Prisoners' Speak.

Slavery never ended in Georgia—it just changed names. Today, thousands of incarcerated people are forced to work for free sustaining state agencies and private corporations under threat of punishment. This is slavery by another name.