“I got hurt on the job with my hand, snapped a bone,” Mark Miller said. “They bandaged me up, told me to keep working, so I did.”

During a press conference on Thursday, Miller recounted his time participating in a work release program, describing a general lack of safety precautions, insufficient training, and the constant fear of being sent back to prison.

“I was trained maybe ten minutes on the job and I was told to do it, and go as fast as I could go,” he remembered. “And if I couldn’t do my job, then they’d just call the camp and report it. And then the camp would write me up if I didn’t do it, and probably send me back to one of the dangerous prisons. So I had no choice in the matter.”

Using survey responses collected by the nonprofit Jobs to Move America in combination with public

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