id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
crl-26859	Adams, Kevin; Planansky, Maria	Carceral Labor and Academic Libraries: Investigating the Library Furniture	2025	19	.pdf	application/pdf	8696	461	41	This research project demystifies the university library’s relationship to prison labor, with an eye toward future steps needed to address this relationship; it seeks to understand the following: the makeup of our patron furniture; our institution’s procurement policies, preferred sourcing, and legal requirements for purchasing; and the manufacturers’ relationships to prison labor. Introduction While moving furniture in preparation for the morning opening, a librarian glanced down and saw a chair’s manufacturing label reading Corcraft, a known New York State Department of Corrections manufacturer that uses prison labor to produce its goods (Corcraft, n.d.).	cache/crl-26859.pdf	txt/crl-26859.txt