PLEA
Role
Product Design
Data Collection
Development
partners
The Workers Lab
Raft Foundation
Status
In Development
Github
PLEA: Exposing the Hidden Economy of Prison Labor
PLEA (Prison Labor Exploitation Awareness) is a community-led, AI-assisted organizing infrastructure and action toolkit that leverages machine learning and generative AI to collect, organize, and analyze publicly available and user-generated data on prison labor, transforming insights into opportunities for individual and collective action.
PLEA’s goal is to create new pathways for transparency, dignity, and economic justice within one of the country’s least visible labor systems.
Key Features
Dashboard
An intuitive interface allows users to easily open prison labor issues and discover calls for collective action.
Crowd-Sourced Insights
An LLM layer analyzes user-submitted issues with structured system data to build its comprehensive analysis.
GenAI Advocacy Content
An AI model creates advocacy content which users can review and refine with tools such as content suggestions and access to a data library that assists in referencing relevant legal and policy frameworks.
Data Library
When users complete their recommended advocacy actions, the data is saved in the structured repository.
Central Organizer
Using agentic AI, the system detects patterns in reported issues and outcomes and suggests next steps for collective actions across the full user base.
