Mexico promoting prison factories to U.S. firms

Wednesday, December 4, 2002

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico -- Prison officials in northern Mexico say their inmates are manufacturing furniture bound for Texas -- despite U.S. laws that ban the importation of goods made with prison labor.

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