I’m contacting you in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s seafood processing industry, and a link we’ve discovered between a company engaged in such practices and procurement contracts awarded by the Bureau of Prisons.

The Chinese company Qingdao Tianyuan Aquatic Products has received persons from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China since at least March 2020 under a state-imposed labor transfer program.

The United Nations, human rights organizations and academic experts agree that since 2018, the Chinese go…