Labor in Farm to Institution Supply Chains Part 1: Prison Labor and the Need for Transparency

Join FINE and the New England Farm & Sea to Campus Network (FSCN) for a one-hour webinar to learn more about The Counter’s investigation into prison labor in food supply chains and what that effort tells us about supply chain transparency.

Hosted by: Farm to Institution New England and the New England Farm & Sea to Campus Network

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Was the food on your plate grown or produced by incarcerated people? We don’t really know. The lack of transparency in our food supply chains means that it can be hard to trace food that’s available in hospitals, schools, and grocery stores- or to understand the working conditions of the incarcerated people making some of it. Senior staff reporter Claire Brown at The Counter addresses some of the questions spurred by this lack of transparency in her Sourced From Inside three-part series. The series was recently recognized by Online Journalism Awards, as a finalist in the “explanatory reporting, small newsroom” categories.

Join FINE and Claire Brown to learn about how prisons are being used as a labor source to produce food for private companies and public institutions and the challenges of traceability in our food system. For those interested in the ethical procurement of food, supporting food workers, and supply chain transparency, this webinar will provide important context for your efforts. FINE is interested in your questions and feedback to inform our work on traceability in promoting healthy and dignifying farm to corrections operations in our region.

Moderator

Peter Allison | Executive Director, Farm to Institution New England

Speakers

H. Claire Brown | Senior Staff Writer, The Counter

SPEAKER BIOS

H. Claire Brown is a senior staff writer for The Counter. Her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The Intercept and has won awards from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, the New York Press Club, the Newswomen’s Club of New York, and others. A North Carolina native, she now lives in Brooklyn.