Bloomberg used prison labor to make 2020 campaign calls

Published December 24, 2019 5:43pm ET



Michael Bloomberg’s 2020 presidential campaign hired ProCom, a New Jersey-based call center, which made calls for the campaign using labor from state prisons.

“We didn’t know about this, and we never would have allowed it if we had,” the campaign told the Intercept on Tuesday after an anonymous source tipped off the publication. “We don’t believe in this practice, and we’ve now ended our relationship with the subcontractor in question.”

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