Yum! Brands, Inc.
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KFC implicated in 2023 class-action lawsuit alleging use of incarcerated labor under exploitative conditions.
Yum! Brands, Inc., the parent company of KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut, has been identified as a purchaser of goods produced using prison labor. According to the American Friends Service Committee, KFC, a Yum! Brands subsidiary, sources products made by incarcerated workers. The company has also been cited as a financier of the private prison industry. While the exact scale of this involvement is not detailed in public disclosures, the use of prison labor in its supply chain and financial ties to major private prison operators CoreCivic and GEO Group place the company within the prison industrial complex.
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