Assaults like these often result in the serious injury or in some cases death of prisoners. Modern slavery within prisons is another form of cruelty and exploitation that prisoners face every day. Writer Vicky Pelaez, describes the situation of forced labor in private prisons that inmates are exposed to in her article in which she describes: “All their workers are full time and never arrive late or are absent due to family problems ; furthermore, if they do not like the pay of 25 cents an hour and refuse to work, they are locked in solitary confinement cells” (Pelaez, 2014). This scenario is representative of an indentured servant, who is not only working to reduce his sentence, but is also paid very little to take care of his prison expenses such as; soap, toothpaste, shampoo, etc. Cruelty like this is supported in 37 states and funded by “IBM, Boeing, Motorola, Microsoft, AT&T, Wireless, Texas Instrument, Dell, [and] Compaq” (Pelaez,