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Mike Elk
Mike Elk is an award-winning labor reporter, who previously served as a labor reporter at POLITICO and In These Times. Based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, he is the founder of Payday Report, the South’s first unionized news co-op.
Years after ALEC's Truth In Sentencing bills became the law of the land, its Prison Industries Act has quietly expanded prison labor across the country.