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Louisiana sentences ppl to “hard labor”, Angola State has cotton fields with horseback guards

Alabama is being accused of denying parole in order to inflate the volume of laborers

It’s not 1859 but these things objectively comport w characteristics of enslavement

www.nytimes.com/2023/12/12/u...
Prisoners Sue Alabama, Calling Prison Labor System a ‘Form of Slavery’
The plaintiffs, who are all Black, contend that the state regularly denies incarcerated people parole so that they can be “leased” out to make money for government agencies and businesses.
www.nytimes.com
January 2, 2024 at 1:36 PM