Human trafficking for labor exploitation in Mississippi involves the coercion of individuals into working long hours in hazardous and substandard conditions, often with little to no pay. Men, women, and children have fallen victim to forced labor across various industries such as construction, agriculture, restaurant, and manufacturing. Some are even exploited in illegal drug operations or coerced into transporting drugs. Domestic servitude, another form of labor trafficking, entails individuals being compelled to perform household chores, care for children and elderly relatives of the trafficker, and remain available at all hours without proper compensation. Many times, these individuals are burdened with significant debts to their traffickers, who control them by restricting their movements and confiscating their passports and other identification documents. Victims of labor trafficking often endure malnourishment, are deprived of their rights, and may not speak English.

Old site – Labor trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.