How a Giant Egg Farm Made Money Off Women Prisoners in Dangerous Conditions
“Everybody who works at Hickman’s, get up!
“在希克曼工作的每个人，起床！
Pack your stuff—you’re being moved today!”
收拾好你的东西——今天你很感动！”
Corrections officers swarmed the Santa Rosa Unit at the Perryville women’s prison in Goodyear, Arizona, barking orders and handing out trash bags for belongings.
惩教人员涌入亚利桑那州古德伊尔佩里维尔女子监狱的圣罗莎监狱，大声下令并分发垃圾袋装物品。
Many women were alarmed.
许多女性感到震惊。
We’re being moved to Hickman’s?
我们要搬到希克曼家了？
How?
如何？
The officers weren’t sharing a lot of details.
官员们没有透露太多细节。
The women would be loaded into vehicles, that much was apparent, then dropped off at one of the company’s properties not far from the prison.
显而易见，这些妇女将被装上车辆，然后被送到离监狱不远的公司一处房产。
Those who refused to go would automatically lose their jobs at the commercial egg farm, officers said.
官员们表示，那些拒绝前往的人将自动失去在商业鸡蛋农场的工作。
There was vague talk of other disciplinary action too, a frightening possibility.
还含糊地谈到了其他纪律处分，这是一种可怕的可能性。
It was March 25, 2020, and the world outside was plunging into crisis.
那是2020年3月25日，外面的世界正陷入危机。
COVID-19 was a deadly new pandemic .
COVID-19 是一种致命的新流行病。
At Perryville, lockdowns were rapidly taking effect.
在佩里维尔，封锁正在迅速生效。
First, visitors were barred from entering the grounds.
首先，游客被禁止进入场地。
Then came rumors that prison officials would be shutting down all jobs beyond prison walls—jobs on the fire crew, jobs in a state hospital kitchen.
随后有传言称，监狱官员将关闭监狱围墙外的所有工作——消防队员的工作、公立医院厨房的工作。
All the outside jobs, that is, except for those at Hickman’s Family Farms, one of the Arizona prison system’s biggest clients.
所有的外部工作，除了希克曼家庭农场的工作，希克曼家庭农场是亚利桑那州监狱系统最大的客户之一。
Many women at Perryville needed their jobs to pay for basic necessities—things like regular soap and toothpaste—and to help build a financial cushion for after their release.
佩里维尔的许多女性需要工作来支付基本必需品（例如普通肥皂和牙膏），并帮助为她们获释后建立经济缓冲。
Working for an outside client paid better than working for the prison itself, where you might make 25 cents an hour as a groundskeeper.
为外部客户工作的报酬比为监狱本身工作要高，在监狱里，作为场地管理员每小时可以赚 25 美分。
Still, even the highest-paying outside jobs paid far less than minimum wage after deductions by the prison, and some gigs were more grueling and dangerous than others.
尽管如此，即使是收入最高的外部工作，扣除监狱费用后的最低工资也远远低于最低工资，而且有些工作比其他工作更辛苦、更危险。
The officers’ yelling roused Shelly* from slumber.
警察的喊叫声把雪莉*从睡梦中惊醒。
She had gotten back that morning from her graveyard sanitation shift at one of the Hickman’s plants.
那天早上，她刚从希克曼一家工厂的墓地卫生轮班回来。
During the days, she’d do her best to sleep off the pain and bone-deep exhaustion that came from hand-scouring egg waste, often with a tiny wire brush or scrub pad, from industrial machinery all night.
白天，她会尽力入睡，以消除因整夜用小钢丝刷或擦洗垫手工擦洗工业机械上的鸡蛋废物而产生的疼痛和彻骨的疲惫。
Now she had to get out of bed and return to Hickman’s?
现在她必须起床回到希克曼家吗？
To stay?
留下来？
She knew she had to go.
她知道她必须走。
Even though everything about the place was horrible, she had a promise to keep: When she got out in a few months, she and her daughter would find an apartment together.
尽管这个地方的一切都很糟糕，但她还是信守承诺：几个月后离开时，她和女儿会一起找到一套公寓。
She needed every cent.
她需要每一分钱。
That day, Shelly and approximately 140 other women rode out to Hickman’s in several trips, some from the prison, others from the barns and processing plants after finishing their day shifts.
那天，雪莉和大约 140 名其他妇女分几次骑马前往希克曼家，其中一些是从监狱出发，另一些是在结束白班后从谷仓和加工厂出发。
Some were scared, unsure of what lay ahead.
有些人感到害怕，不确定接下来会发生什么。
One driver tried to lighten the mood.
一名司机试图缓和气氛。
“This is groundbreaking,” he said.
“这是开创性的，”他说。
“You guys are gonna be a part of history.
“你们将成为历史的一部分。
This is the first time this has ever happened.”
这是第一次发生这种情况。”
This , it turned out, was a prison labor camp, created just for them.
事实证明，这是专门为他们建造的监狱劳教所。
Shutting down all prison work crews would have been uniquely devastating to Hickman’s, which had more than 200 incarcerated women and men making up at least a quarter of its total workforce.
关闭所有监狱工作人员对希克曼监狱来说无疑是毁灭性的打击，该监狱有 200 多名被监禁的男女，占其劳动力总数的至少四分之一。
The farm, one of the largest egg producers in the country, depended on the cheap, readily available labor it got through Arizona Correctional Industries (ACI), a self-funded division of the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (ADCRR) that functions in part like a staffing firm, funneling incarcerated workers to private clients.
该农场是美国最大的鸡蛋生产商之一，依赖亚利桑那州惩教工业公司 (ACI) 提供的廉价、现成的劳动力。ACI 是亚利桑那州惩教、康复和重返社会部 (ADCRR) 的一个自筹资金部门，其职能部分类似于人才派遣公司，将被监禁的工人输送给私人客户。
In the frantic weeks of March 2020, Hickman’s, ACI, and ADCRR hastily engineered a work-around to the looming COVID lockdowns.
在 2020 年 3 月疯狂的几周里，希克曼、ACI 和 ADCRR 匆忙设计了一个解决方案，以应对迫在眉睫的新冠疫情封锁。
Hickman’s could continue using incarcerated workers on one extraordinary condition: Those workers would be housed outside the prison, at Hickman’s itself.
希克曼监狱可以继续使用被监禁的工人，但有一项特殊条件：这些工人将被安置在监狱外的希克曼监狱内。
And so as all other off-site work shut down, Hickman’s remained the only private company in Arizona allowed to use incarcerated workers on its own turf.
因此，在所有其他场外工作都关闭的情况下，希克曼公司仍然是亚利桑那州唯一一家允许在自己的地盘上使用被监禁工人的私营公司。
Two national experts in prison labor who spoke with Cosmopolitan —Corene Kendrick and Jennifer Turner, both with the American Civil Liberties Union—could cite no other instance of a state corrections department detaining people on-site at a U.S. corporation for the corporation’s express use.
两位美国公民自由联盟的监狱劳动专家科琳·肯德里克和詹妮弗·特纳在接受《大都会》采访时，无法举出其他州惩戒部门在一家美国公司现场拘留人员供该公司使用的例子。
Within days of the plan’s approval, a roughly 6,000-square-foot metal-sided warehouse on the Hickman’s lot at 6515 S Jackrabbit Trail in Buckeye, Arizona, had been repurposed from an apparent vehicle hangar into a bare-bones “dormitory.” It sat in plain sight, about 200 feet back from the road, near the Hickman’s corporate headquarters and retail store, where an electric signboard and giant 3D chicken beckon customers in for “local & fresh” eggs.
该计划获得批准后的几天内，位于亚利桑那州巴克艾市 S Jackrabbit Trail 6515 号希克曼地块上的一个约 6,000 平方英尺的金属面仓库就从一个明显的车辆机库改造成一个简陋的“宿舍”。它坐落在显眼的地方，距道路约 200 英尺，靠近希克曼公司总部和零售店，那里有一个电子招牌和巨大的 3D 鸡吸引顾客前来购买“本地新鲜”鸡蛋。
Over the next 14 and a half months, some 300 women total would cycle through this prison outpost, their waking lives largely devoted to maintaining the farm’s operations while the pandemic raged.
在接下来的 14 个半月里，共有约 300 名女性骑车穿过这个监狱前哨，她们醒着的生活主要致力于在疫情肆虐期间维持农场的运营。
Eleven of these women—all incarcerated for nonviolent offenses, which one could argue is beside the point—shared their firsthand accounts with Cosmopolitan .
其中 11 名女性——全部因非暴力犯罪而被监禁，人们可能会认为这无关紧要——与《大都会》分享了她们的第一手资料。
Our nearly yearlong investigation also turned up thousands of pages of internal ADCRR emails, incident reports, and other documents exposing a hastily launched labor experiment for which women were explicitly chosen.
我们长达近一年的调查还发现了数千页的 ADCRR 内部电子邮件、事件报告和其他文件，揭露了一项仓促启动的劳工实验，其中明确选择了女性。
Housed in conditions described by many as hideous, the women performed dangerous work at base hourly wages as low as $4.25, working on skeleton crews decimated in part by COVID.
这些妇女的居住条件被许多人描述为极其恶劣，她们从事危险的工作，基本时薪低至 4.25 美元，她们的骨干人员因新冠肺炎而部分死亡。
At least one suffered an injury that left her permanently disfigured.
至少有一人受了伤，导致她永久毁容。
These are their stories.
这些是他们的故事。
As upset as Shelly was at the abrupt relocation, she and some of the other women experienced a surge of excitement in their early days at the Hickman’s camp.
尽管雪莉对突然的搬迁感到不安，但她和其他一些女性在希克曼营地的早期经历了一阵兴奋。
Everyone received full-size toothbrushes and brand-new blankets and pillows—unthinkable luxuries back at Perryville.
每个人都收到了全尺寸的牙刷、全新的毯子和枕头——这在佩里维尔是难以想象的奢侈品。
We’re being spoiled, for being incarcerated!
我们因为被监禁而被宠坏了！
Shelly thought at first.
雪莉一开始这么想。
A food truck dished out fancy fare like pulled pork sandwiches and salads.
一辆餐车提供手撕猪肉三明治和沙拉等精美食物。
Members of the Hickman family who own and run the farm came out to serve some meals.
拥有并经营农场的希克曼家族的成员出来提供食物。
But superficial niceties belied the actual conditions, Shelly and other women told Cosmopolitan .
但雪莉和其他女性告诉《时尚》杂志，表面的细节掩盖了实际情况。
They were assigned to prison-made bunk beds spaced so tightly that social distancing was impossible.
他们被分配到监狱制作的双层床，床间距太小，以至于不可能保持社交距离。
The desert can get cold in early spring.
早春时节，沙漠会变得寒冷。
When she went to bed in the predawn hours, Shelly shivered herself to sleep in her coat and thermals; the warehouse building had no built-in heating or cooling, and the portable units in the space proved no match for the climate.
当雪莉在黎明前上床睡觉时，她穿着外套和保暖衣，浑身发抖地睡着了。仓库建筑没有内置供暖或制冷系统，而且空间内的便携式设备也无法适应当地的气候。
Because the warehouse also lacked plumbing, a mobile trailer with six cheap, grimy shower stalls had to suffice for personal hygiene.
由于仓库也缺乏管道，一辆带有六个廉价、肮脏的淋浴间的移动拖车必须足以满足个人卫生。
About a dozen porta potties stood in for actual toilets, separated from the sleeping area by a mere partition.
大约有十几个移动便盆代替了真正的厕所，与睡眠区仅隔着一道隔板。
Shelly recalls a disgusting scene with waste tanks filling far more quickly than maintenance crews could handle.
雪莉回忆起一个令人作呕的场景，废物箱装满的速度远远超出了维护人员的处理能力。
Inside the sleeping area, the sickening odor of raw sewage only intensified as the weather heated up.
在睡眠区内，随着天气变暖，未经处理的污水的令人作呕的气味变得更加强烈。
That summer, outside temperatures regularly exceeded 100 degrees.
那年夏天，室外气温经常超过100度。
On a number of dangerously hot days, Shelly and some of her fellow overnight workers were allowed to bring their pillows and blankets into an “entertainment” trailer—their TV room, essentially, which several women say was the only spot with effective air conditioning.
在许多危险的炎热日子里，雪莉和她的一些夜班同事被允许把枕头和毯子带进“娱乐”拖车——本质上是他们的电视房，一些女性说这是唯一有有效空调的地方。
The women slept on the hard floor.
女人们睡在硬地板上。
Although corrections officers and ACI staff supervised the labor camp, it is unclear which entity was directly responsible for maintaining and funding it.
尽管惩教人员和 ACI 工作人员对劳教所进行监督，但尚不清楚哪个实体直接负责维护和资助劳教所。
Eventually, months into the program, the temporary toilets and showers were upgraded to something slightly less putrid.
最终，在该计划实施数月后，临时厕所和淋浴间被升级为稍微不那么腐烂的东西。
But accountability was scarce.
但问责制却很少。
A spokesperson for the Arizona Department of Occupational Safety and Health could not say whether or not the agency ever inspected the warehouse for compliance with federal rules on labor camps but did say that prisoners fall outside of its jurisdiction.
亚利桑那州职业安全与健康部的发言人无法透露该机构是否曾检查过仓库是否符合联邦关于劳改营的规定，但表示囚犯不属于该机构的管辖范围。
Arizona law, like many other states’, does not treat incarcerated workers as “real” employees.
与许多其他州的法律一样，亚利桑那州的法律并不将被监禁的工人视为“真正的”雇员。
For the Perryville women, most basic workplace protections didn’t apply.
对于佩里维尔的女性来说，最基本的工作场所保护并不适用。
And then, of course, there was the work itself.
当然，还有工作本身。
Each night on duty, Shelly’s crew cleaned two processing plants top to bottom, using tools, hoses, and industrial agents until every crust of dried egg, every broken bit of shell, and all bird excrement were blasted away.
每天晚上值班时，雪莉的工作人员都会使用工具、软管和工业制剂从上到下清洁两个加工厂，直到每一块干蛋壳、每一个破碎的蛋壳和所有鸟类粪便都被炸掉。
Other women vaccinated massive barns of live birds, packed giant pallets of eggs, and euthanized older “spent hens” by the thousands.
其他妇女为大量活禽接种疫苗，打包巨大的鸡蛋托盘，并对数千只年长的“废母鸡”实施安乐死。
These jobs, typical of some farmwork, would leave many of the women bruised and scratched, their hair crusted with yolks and whites, their skin burned from cleaning agents, their uniforms soiled with chicken feces.
这些工作是一些农活的典型特征，会让许多妇女瘀伤和抓伤，头发上沾满蛋黄和蛋白，皮肤被清洁剂灼伤，制服上沾满鸡粪。
The work was so disgusting that some newcomers would puke on their first shifts.
这项工作太恶心了，以至于一些新来的人在第一班就吐了。
Jobs at Hickman’s also brought exposure to moving mechanical parts, fumes, extreme heat, toxic chemicals, precarious heights, and risk of electrical shock, according to ADCRR and Hickman’s own description.
根据 ADCRR 和希克曼自己的描述，希克曼的工作还带来了接触移动机械部件、烟雾、极热、有毒化学物质、不稳定的高度和触电的风险。
Since 2018, 14 people, including one woman in this story, have sued Hickman’s for workplace injuries sustained while incarcerated.
自 2018 年以来，已有 14 人（包括本文中的一名女性）因在监禁期间遭受工伤而起诉希克曼公司。
Of these cases, two have been dismissed, three are pending, and eight (including two cases consolidated into one) have been settled.
其中，两起案件已被驳回，三起案件正在审理中，八起案件（包括两起案件合并为一起）已经和解。
In court documents, Hickman’s has repeatedly denied responsibility for the injuries.
在法庭文件中，希克曼一再否认对伤害负责。
Some women believed they were chosen for the pandemic crew because they were better workers than men were, because “girls kick ass,” as one put it.
一些女性认为，她们被选为应对疫情的工作人员是因为她们比男性更优秀，正如有人所说，“女孩很出色”。
But that wasn’t the whole reason.
但这还不是全部原因。
An audio recording of a key meeting held shortly before the camp’s opening, provided to Cosmopolitan by a whistleblower who requested anonymity, reveals a more troubling explanation.
一位要求匿名的举报人向《大都市》提供了营地开幕前不久举行的一次重要会议的录音，该录音揭示了一个更令人不安的解释。
In the recording, a person identified as ADCRR director David Shinn explains that the ADCRR “somewhat chose female inmates because they certainly are a little less challenging to manage—and far more compliant in many settings.” Shinn also said that the women had worked on the site before and were therefore “uniquely trained” to keep the farm running—the latter assertion later echoed in a public statement by Hickman’s president and CEO Glenn Hickman and in ADCRR’s emailed response to Cosmopolitan when asked to elaborate on Shinn’s remarks.
在录音中，一位被称为 ADCRR 主任 David Shinn 的人解释说，ADCRR“在某种程度上选择了女性囚犯，因为管理她们的难度肯定要小一些，而且在许多环境下更加顺从。”希恩还表示，这些妇女之前曾在该工地工作过，因此接受过“独特的培训”，以维持农场的运转。希克曼总裁兼首席执行官格伦·希克曼 (Glenn Hickman) 的公开声明以及当被要求详细阐述希恩言论时 ADCRR 通过电子邮件回复 Cosmopolitan 时，都呼应了后者的说法。
The closed-door characterization of women as compliant is troubling, says Erin Hatton, PhD, a sociologist at the University at Buffalo-SUNY and the author of Coerced: Work Under Threat of Punishment .
纽约州立大学布法罗分校的社会学家、《强迫：在惩罚威胁下工作》一书的作者艾琳·哈顿博士表示，将女性视为顺从的闭门造景令人不安。
As of 2021, women made up 7 percent of all incarcerated people in state and federal prisons, up from 4 percent in 1978.
截至 2021 年，女性占州和联邦监狱所有被监禁者的 7%，高于 1978 年的 4%。
In roughly that same time frame, the number of women detained in all U.S. prisons and jails increased by more than 475 percent, to 152,854 in 2020.
大约在同一时间段内，美国所有监狱和看守所中被拘留的女性人数增加了 475% 以上，到 2020 年达到 152,854 人。
For Hatton, the merging of prison unit and private workplace rings an alarm for all incarcerated people but especially for women.
对于哈顿来说，监狱单位和私人工作场所的合并给所有被监禁者敲响了警钟，尤其是女性。
In this setting, the workplace is “effectively empowered with the power of the state,” Hatton says.
哈顿说，在这种情况下，工作场所“有效地获得了国家权力”。
“Whenever any entity wields that much power over a person—not just in terms of keeping their life organized behind bars but in terms of quality of the housing, in terms of their job, what work they’re doing, their safety—I get concerned.” The women could quit Hickman’s at any time…but at what cost and to whom?
“每当任何实体对一个人行使如此大的权力时——不仅是在保证他们在监狱里的生活井井有条方面，而且是在住房质量、他们的工作、他们正在做的工作以及他们的安全方面——我都会感到担忧。”女性可以随时戒掉希克曼的戒烟……但代价是什么？对象是谁？
A March 24, 2020, letter sent to households in the community, signed by Shinn and Glenn Hickman, explained the camp thusly: “[The] decision to temporarily house inmates at Hickman’s is necessary to ensure a stable food supply while protecting public health.”
2020 年 3 月 24 日，一封由辛恩·希克曼 (Shinn Hickman) 和格伦·希克曼 (Glenn Hickman) 签署的发给社区家庭的信对营地做出了这样的解释：“在希克曼监狱暂时安置囚犯的决定对于确保稳定的食物供应和保护公众健康是必要的。”
2020 was Stephanie Scott’s second stint at Perryville, and she was determined to turn her life around.
2020 年是斯蒂芬妮·斯科特第二次在佩里维尔工作，她决心扭转自己的生活。
The work at Hickman’s is “not for the weak,” she says, but she enjoyed the physical movement and aspired to something better: “I wanted to make my family proud.
她说，希克曼的工作“不适合弱者”，但她喜欢身体运动，并渴望获得更好的东西：“我想让我的家人感到自豪。
Like, ‘Look, I was in prison, but I worked my ass off.’” She started in sanitation, then transferred to processing.
就像，‘看，我在监狱里，但我拼命工作。’”她从卫生部门开始，然后转到加工部门。
As all companies do when contracting with ACI, Hickman’s paid minimum wage ($12 per hour in Arizona in 2020) for the women but not to the women.
正如所有公司在与 ACI 签订合同时所做的那样，希克曼为女性支付了最低工资（2020 年亚利桑那州为每小时 12 美元），但不向女性支付最低工资。
ACI received the money, then paid the women from $4.25 to $5.25 an hour.
ACI 收到这笔钱后，向这些妇女支付每小时 4.25 至 5.25 美元的工资。
The difference went toward ACI staff and corrections officers plus various fees—a practice that’s currently legal.
差额支付给 ACI 工作人员和惩教人员以及各种费用——这种做法目前是合法的。
On top of that, ADCRR imposed its own heavy fees on the women’s take-home pay, including 30 percent of every paycheck for “room and board.”
除此之外，ADCRR 对女性的实得工资征收高额费用，包括每份工资的 30% 用于“食宿”。
That summer, after a few months in the Hickman’s camp, Stephanie came down with COVID symptoms.
那年夏天，在希克曼营地待了几个月后，斯蒂芬妮出现了新冠症状。
Her positive test landed her in a solitary cell at Perryville for three weeks while the virus racked her body.
她的阳性检测结果让她在佩里维尔的一间单独牢房里呆了三周，而病毒却折磨着她的身体。
Lingering effects, including ulcers in her throat, left her unable to work for two months.
包括喉咙溃疡在内的持续影响使她两个月无法工作。
Her income ceased during that time, she says, which isn’t surprising: Arizona law does not mandate sick pay for incarcerated workers, even if those workers get sick at the job site itself.
她说，在那段时间里，她的收入停止了，这并不奇怪：亚利桑那州法律没有规定被监禁的工人必须支付病假工资，即使这些工人在工作现场生病了。
Still, Stephanie blames ADCRR for those hardships, not Hickman’s.
尽管如此，斯蒂芬妮仍将这些困难归咎于 ADCRR，而不是希克曼。
She went back to the camp as soon as she felt strong again.
当她感觉身体再次恢复健康时，她就回到了营地。
The way she views it, “Hickman’s had to deal with all these women that they didn’t even…I don’t think they really knew what they were getting into.”
在她看来，“希克曼必须与所有这些她们甚至没有接触过的女性打交道……我认为她们并不真正知道自己正在陷入什么境地。”
As COVID began to take its toll, the company found itself down at least a dozen women in September.
随着新冠疫情开始造成影响，该公司发现 9 月份至少裁减了十几名女性员工。
That’s when Frecks arrived.
就在这时，弗雷克斯来了。
With less than a year left on her sentence, Frecks (her nickname) had been working on the prison’s fire crew until the pandemic shut it down.
刑期还剩不到一年，弗雷克斯（她的昵称）一直在监狱的消防队工作，直到大流行导致监狱关闭。
She loved that team, which fought blazes throughout the state.
她喜欢那支在全州救火的队伍。
She felt a sense of pride in upholding public safety.
她为维护公共安全感到自豪。
Frecks had worked for Hickman’s during an earlier part of her sentence and quit after a coworker’s chicken-vaccination gun nearly stabbed her on several occasions.
弗雷克斯在服刑初期曾在希克曼的诊所工作，但在同事的鸡疫苗枪多次差点刺伤她后，弗雷克斯辞职了。
If she didn’t need the money so badly, she never would have moved to the camp.
如果她不是那么急需钱，她绝对不会搬到营地。
Assigned to overnight sanitation this time around, Frecks says she and other women worked overtime to cover crew shortages.
弗雷克斯说，这次被分配到夜间进行卫生清洁工作，她和其他女性加班以弥补人员短缺。
Soon, she felt like she was being run into the dirt.
很快，她就感觉自己被踩进了泥土里。
A woman who spoke with Cosmopolitan on condition of anonymity also described the intense strain.
一位不愿透露姓名的女士也描述了这种强烈的压力。
“When crews started getting hit with COVID, we went out short,” she says.
“当工作人员开始感染新冠病毒时，我们就陷入了困境，”她说。
“Some days, we would go out with 5 or 6 girls instead of 14.
“有时候，我们会和 5 或 6 个女孩出去，而不是 14 个。
Whoever we had would go.” Shelly says she worked in leaky work boots for so long that the skin on her feet turned black.
无论我们有谁，都会走。”雪莉说，她穿着漏水的工作靴工作太久，脚上的皮肤都变黑了。
Pay records confirm that women at the work camp were clocking as many as 128 hours within a single two-week pay period.
工资记录证实，工作营的女性在两周的工资期内工作时间多达 128 个小时。
Jessica*, who spent eight months of her sentence housed at Hickman’s, shared an October 2020 bank statement showing that she netted just $424 for two weeks of work—and that included more than 40 hours of overtime, which paid extra.
杰西卡*在希克曼监狱度过了 8 个月的刑期，她分享了一份 2020 年 10 月的银行对账单，显示她两周的工作收入仅为 424 美元，其中包括 40 多个小时的加班，这是额外支付的。
Some women decided the toil wasn’t worth it and quit.
一些女性认为这种辛苦不值得，于是放弃了。
Some refused to go back to the camp after getting sick with COVID.
有些人在感染新冠病毒后拒绝返回营地。
Hickman’s vice president of operations Billy Hickman seemingly struggled to keep tabs on all the women coming and going.
希克曼的运营副总裁比利·希克曼（Billy Hickman）似乎很难监视所有来来往往的女性。
“If we have pulled 21 off the last two weeks, why are only 8 in quarantine?” he wrote to an ACI supervisor in early December.
“如果过去两周我们减少了 21 人，为什么只有 8 人被隔离？” 12 月初，他写信给 ACI 的一位主管。
As the year came to a close, the Hickman’s work camp was 42 women short.
年底时，希克曼工作营还缺少 42 名女性。
Crystal Allen had two fully functioning hands when she moved to the warehouse camp in June 2020.
2020 年 6 月，克里斯托·艾伦 (Crystal Allen) 搬到仓库营地时，她的两只手功能正常。
By mid-November, she was down to one, as she would later detail in a lawsuit against the farm.
到 11 月中旬，她的情况只剩下一个了，正如她后来在针对农场的诉讼中详细描述的那样。
Like Frecks, Crystal had worked at Hickman’s in the past.
和弗雷克斯一样，克里斯特尔过去也曾在希克曼公司工作过。
She was lured back in part by the post-prison opportunities Hickman’s offered to those who worked for the company after they got out—perks like transitional housing.
她之所以回来，部分原因是希克曼为出狱后在公司工作的人提供了出狱后的机会——比如过渡性住房等福利。
She knew the job would be hard, but Crystal was a master of positive self-talk.
她知道这份工作会很辛苦，但克里斯特尔是一位积极自言自语的大师。
Even when she had to sweep wet chicken shit off a conveyor belt, sometimes using her arms, she took it like a champ.
即使当她不得不把传送带上湿漉漉的鸡屎扫掉时（有时需要用手臂），她也能轻松应对。
On November 10, Crystal woke up at 3:30 a.m.
11月10日凌晨3点30分，克里斯托醒来。
for her regular barn shift.
为了她定期的谷仓值班。
She arrived on-site and noticed one of the feed hoppers wasn’t filling properly.
她到达现场后发现其中一个进料斗没有正确填充。
Elaborating on the allegations in her lawsuit, she tells Cosmopolitan she switched the system to a manual setting, as someone had once shown her how to do, then climbed up to smooth the feed into place with her right hand, steadying herself with the other.
在详细阐述诉讼中的指控时，她告诉《大都市》，她将系统切换到手动设置，就像有人曾经向她展示过如何操作一样，然后爬上来，用右手将饲料平稳到位，并用另一只手稳定自己。
Suddenly, she says, the hopper jumped to life, running over part of her left thumb.
她说，突然，漏斗跳了起来，碾过她左手拇指的一部分。
Crystal yanked off her sock and wrapped it around her hand to stanch the bleeding.
克里斯特尔猛地脱下袜子，包住手止血。
Her injury was so severe that she had to be transported to a hospital.
她的伤势非常严重，必须被送往医院。
The tip of her finger had been permanently amputated.
她的指尖已被永久截肢。
And yet that wasn’t Crystal’s last shift.
但这并不是克里斯托的最后一次轮班。
After recovering in Perryville quarantine with a course of antibiotics, she returned to Hickman’s in early 2021.
在佩里维尔隔离区接受抗生素疗程康复后，她于 2021 年初回到希克曼医院。
The optimist in her wanted to believe the farm would improve safety measures in the wake of her injury.
她内心的乐观主义者希望相信农场会在她受伤后改善安全措施。
Placed on a bird movement crew upon her return, she witnessed a blasé approach to daily safety meetings.
回国后，她被安排在鸟类运动小组中，她目睹了人们对日常安全会议的漠不关心。
Records show that these meetings were typically about six minutes long.
记录显示，这些会议通常持续约六分钟。
According to Annette Austin, who also worked with live birds, the meetings were of little value.
安妮特·奥斯汀（Annette Austin）也从事活禽研究，她表示，这些会议没有什么价值。
“They usually didn’t pertain to anything you were doing that day,” she says.
“它们通常与你当天所做的任何事情无关，”她说。
“You had to sign something saying you were there.”
“你必须签署一份文件，表明你在那里。”
Incident reports suggest that at least 19 incarcerated women working at Hickman’s sites sustained injuries of varying severity between March 25 and the end of December 2020.
事件报告显示，从 2020 年 3 月 25 日到 2020 年 12 月底，至少有 19 名在希克曼工地工作的被监禁女性遭受了不同程度的伤害。
This reflects a national pattern of agricultural workers being hurt on the job: at least 11,880 in 2020, with an additional 368 dying from work-related injuries.
这反映了全国农业工人在工作中受伤的格局：2020年至少有11,880人，另有368人死于工伤。
Crystal’s lawsuit was moving through the court system as this story went to press.
截至本文付印时，克里斯特尔的诉讼正在法院系统中审理。
In a response to her lawsuit, Hickman’s claims Crystal was trained to avoid “pinch points” and denies being at fault.
在对她的诉讼的回应中，希克曼声称克里斯特尔接受过避免“夹点”的培训，并否认有过错。
Says Crystal, “Hickman’s could not have cared less about my injury and proves this by putting the blame on me and others who have been injured at their farm.”
克里斯特尔说，“希克曼不可能不关心我的伤势，并通过将责任归咎于我和其他在他们农场受伤的人来证明这一点。”
The work camp was entering its second spring when a massive blaze tore through two Hickman’s barns, cause unclear.
当工作营进入第二个春天时，一场大火烧毁了希克曼的两个谷仓，原因尚不清楚。
One worker was reportedly hurt, and some 165,000 hens were killed, either incinerated or suffocated by smoke.
据报道，一名工人受伤，约 165,000 只母鸡被烧死或被烟雾窒息而死。
Jessica was put on a crew of women tasked with cleaning up the hen carcasses, stacked in cages multiple tiers high in a footprint that encompassed tens of thousands of square feet.
杰西卡派了一群妇女负责清理母鸡尸体，这些母鸡尸体被堆放在多层高的笼子里，占地数万平方英尺。
Prior to the pandemic, Jessica had worked other off-site jobs—at the auto auction, at the state hospital.
在大流行之前，杰西卡曾在汽车拍卖场和州立医院做过其他场外工作。
Grief brought her to Hickman’s, she explains.
她解释说，悲伤让她来到了希克曼家。
Her son died in the spring of 2020, killed in a horrific accident.
她的儿子于 2020 年春天在一场可怕的事故中去世。
The prison wouldn’t let her attend his memorial (official policy for closed caskets and cremated remains).
监狱不允许她参加他的追悼会（官方政策是封闭棺材和火化遗体）。
Depression set in.
抑郁症袭来。
Languishing in bed, with all other off-site jobs shut down, “I had to do something to move forward,” Jessica says.
杰西卡躺在床上，所有其他场外工作都被关闭，“我必须做点什么才能继续前进，”杰西卡说。
“So I went over to Hickman’s.”
“所以我去了希克曼家。”
At first, she worked on an overnight sanitation crew like Shelly did.
起初，她像雪莉一样在一个通宵环卫队工作。
She’s short, so she was often one of the women who squeezed into the narrow spaces within processing machines to scrub.
她个子矮，所以经常是挤进加工机器狭窄空间擦洗的女性之一。
At the end of some shifts, she’d return to the warehouse and apply thick lotion to the chemical burns she had sustained.
在一些轮班结束时，她会返回仓库，在化学烧伤处涂上浓稠的乳液。
She used her earnings to buy antihistamines at the commissary and took them like sleeping pills.
她用自己的收入在小卖部购买抗组胺药，然后像安眠药一样服用。
Jessica eventually transferred to a barn job, which led to her being on fire cleanup.
杰西卡最终调到了谷仓工作，这导致她负责清理火灾。
She and the other women climbed up and down, opening each cage, hurling carcasses to the ground.
她和其他女人爬上爬下，打开每个笼子，把尸体扔到地上。
A putrid, feathery sea rose underfoot, high enough to reach their knees.
一股腐烂的、羽毛状的海洋在脚下升起，高到了他们的膝盖。
She had always felt bad for the birds.
她一直为这些鸟儿感到难过。
Even the cage-free hens were confined within a vast maze of fencing.
即使是散养的母鸡也被限制在巨大的栅栏迷宫中。
Any freedom at Hickman’s was illusory.
希克曼的任何自由都是虚幻的。
Jessica says she shoveled the dead chickens into chest-high barrels that she pushed to a disposal belt at the far end of the barn.
杰西卡说，她把死鸡铲进齐胸高的桶里，然后推到谷仓远端的处理带上。
Eventually, the women got wheelbarrows.
最终，妇女们得到了独轮手推车。
The job took weeks.
这项工作花了几周时间。
Mice arrived to feed on the rotting remains.
老鼠来到这里以腐烂的残骸为食。
By then, Jessica’s boy had been gone for nearly a year.
那时，杰西卡的儿子已经失踪近一年了。
She quit Hickman’s as the anniversary approached.
随着周年纪念日的临近，她退出了希克曼的餐厅。
Perryville required anyone leaving the work camp to quarantine before rejoining the general prison population.
佩里维尔要求任何离开工作营的人在重新加入监狱之前都要进行隔离。
For once, Jessica would leverage a rule in her favor: She would use her isolation time to mourn.
这一次，杰西卡将利用一条对她有利的规则：她将利用隔离时间来哀悼。
The Hickman’s dorm program ended in early June 2021, as COVID vaccines became widely available.
随着新冠疫苗的广泛使用，希克曼的宿舍计划于 2021 年 6 月上旬结束。
Once again, officers arrived and handed out trash bags.
警察再次赶到并分发垃圾袋。
Women packed their things.
女人们收拾东西。
The entire unit was back at Perryville the next day.
第二天，整个部队都回到了佩里维尔。
Stephanie’s sentence ended that November.
斯蒂芬妮的刑期于当年十一月结束。
She left with about $19,000 for her three-plus years of labor, a sum she says would have been double if the prison hadn’t taken so much.
她留下了大约 19,000 美元，用于她三年多的分娩，她说，如果监狱没有拿走这么多钱，这笔钱会增加一倍。
“Where does all our money go?” she asks.
“我们所有的钱都去哪儿了？”她问。
A 2020 Arizona state audit shows that from 2016 to 2019, ADCRR sent millions of dollars collected in large part from prisoners’ room and board fees to the State General Fund, a pot of money that supports multiple agencies.
2020 年亚利桑那州的一项审计显示，从 2016 年到 2019 年，ADCRR 将大部分从囚犯食宿费中收取的数百万美元汇给了州普通基金，这是支持多个机构的一大笔钱。
The wages of incarcerated people are taxed, too, if they make more than $600 a year.
如果被监禁者的年收入超过 600 美元，他们的工资也会被征税。
Stephanie stayed on with Hickman’s as an employee, moving into company housing.
斯蒂芬妮作为一名员工继续留在希克曼公司，搬进了公司宿舍。
She has since relocated to California.
此后她搬到了加利福尼亚州。
She says Hickman’s gave her another shot at a normal life, a view that aligns with the company’s positive public messaging on prison labor.
她说希克曼给了她重新过上正常生活的机会，这一观点与该公司关于监狱劳动的积极公开信息是一致的。
“They do want the best for us,” Stephanie says.
“他们确实希望我们得到最好的，”斯蒂芬妮说。
During Cosmopolitan ’s months of reporting, Hickman’s Family Farms and its executives, including siblings Glenn, Billy, Clint, and Sharman Hickman, did not respond to multiple phone calls and emails containing detailed questions and interview requests for this story.
在《大都市》几个月的报道期间，希克曼家庭农场及其高管，包括格伦、比利、克林特和沙曼·希克曼兄弟姐妹，没有回复多个包含详细问题和采访请求的电话和电子邮件。
An Arizona corrections spokesperson declined to make any ADCRR or ACI personnel available for interviews.
亚利桑那州惩教机构发言人拒绝让任何 ADCRR 或 ACI 人员接受采访。
(Shinn stepped down from his role in January and could not be reached for comment.) In a written response to one set of questions, a spokesperson emphasized that jobs at Hickman’s are voluntary, adding that the work camp provided “all necessary accommodations” and that ADCRR’s partnership with Hickman’s provided “critical job skills for inmates.”
（希恩于 1 月份辞去职务，无法联系到他发表评论。）在对一组问题的书面答复中，一位发言人强调，希克曼监狱的工作是自愿的，并补充说，工作营提供了“所有必要的住宿”，ADCRR 与希克曼监狱的合作关系为囚犯提供了“关键的工作技能”。
Hatton views it differently.
哈顿对此有不同的看法。
“No matter how many times they say it’s about rehabilitation and opportunity and skill development, that does not seem to be what’s happening here,” she says.
“无论他们多少次说这与康复、机会和技能发展有关，但这里发生的情况似乎并非如此，”她说。
It’s more about the forces driving vulnerable women to accept subpar conditions when there are few, if any, alternatives.
更重要的是，在几乎没有其他选择的情况下，驱使弱势女性接受低于标准的条件的力量。
Says Hatton, “There’s an economic push that will compel them to tolerate too much.” That’s not compliance—it’s desperation.
哈顿说，“经济的推动将迫使他们容忍太多。”这不是服从——这是绝望。
Frecks got out in April 2021 and moved to the East Coast.
Frecks 于 2021 年 4 月出狱，搬到了东海岸。
She reflects on her Hickman’s time with anger, the state’s exorbitant fees on her earnings being their own affront.
她愤怒地回忆起希克曼的时光，国家对她的收入收取过高的费用是对他们自己的侮辱。
“We lose our freedom.
“我们失去了自由。
We lose our rights,” she says.
我们失去了我们的权利，”她说。
“Let us at least keep what we’re making.”
“至少让我们保留我们正在做的事情。”
Although Crystal had once considered working for Hickman’s after her release from Perryville, scheduled for this April, she’s officially done with that idea.
尽管克里斯特尔曾考虑在今年四月从佩里维尔获释后为希克曼工作，但她已经正式放弃了这个想法。
“I aspire to find myself in some type of service work,” she says.
“我渴望从事某种类型的服务工作，”她说。
Shelly hung on as a Hickman’s employee for nearly a year after her release and says she made around triple what she earned for the same work while incarcerated.
获释后，雪莉继续担任希克曼的雇员近一年，她说，她的收入大约是她在监禁期间从事同样工作的三倍。
Eventually, she found an apartment with her daughter and now works in hospitality.
最终，她和女儿找到了一套公寓，现在在酒店业工作。
She’s grateful she had the Hickman’s job and grateful she survived it.
她很感激自己能得到希克曼的工作，也很庆幸自己能活下来。
“When you’re working your butt off and you’re just being put through the wringer…it just does something to you,” Shelly says.
“当你拼尽全力工作时，你却陷入了困境……它只会对你产生影响，”雪莉说。
“I honestly don’t know how I made it some nights.”
“说实话，有些晚上我都不知道自己是怎么熬过来的。”
Jessica, released in the summer of 2021 and now working at a methadone clinic, believes Hickman’s is profiteering at best.
杰西卡于 2021 年夏天获释，现在在一家美沙酮诊所工作，她认为希克曼的诊所充其量只是暴利。
The Perryville women were the perfect captive laborers, she says, “because they have no responsibilities.
佩里维尔的妇女是完美的俘虏劳工，她说，“因为她们没有责任。
They don’t have anything else to go out for.
他们没有别的事可出去。
They are workers, all the time.”
他们始终都是工人。”
Elizabeth Whitman is a writer based in the Pacific Northwest whose work has appeared in The Guardian , The Nation , and Nature , among other publications.
伊丽莎白·惠特曼是一位居住在太平洋西北地区的作家，她的作品曾发表在《卫报》、《国家》和《自然》等出版物上。
She also co-owns and runs a small vegetable farm.
她还共同拥有并经营一个小型蔬菜农场。