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"Your Valentine, Made In Prison"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

February 12, 2009 Beth Schwartzapfel Your Valentine, Made in Priosn The Nation With Valentine's Day approaching, perhaps you're planning a trip to Victoria's Secret. If you're a conscientious shopper, chances are you want to know about the origins of the clothes you buy: whether they're sweatshop free or fairly traded or made in the USA. One label you won't find attached to your lingerie, however, is "Made in the USA: By Prisoners." This Valentine's Day you might want to steer clear of Victoria's Secret, unless of course you like your lingerie made by prisoners. In addition to the South Carolina inmates who were hired by a subcontractor in the 1990s to stitch Victoria's Secret lingerie, prisoners in the past two decades have packaged or assembled everything from Starbucks coffee beans to Shelby Cobra sports cars, Nintendo Game Boys, Microsoft mouses and Eddie Bauer clothing...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 13, 2009 (boomark / email).