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(77,049 posts) Thu Jan 8, 2015, 10:05 PM Jan 2015

Chris Hedges and Eddie Conway: How Prisons Rip Off and Exploit the Incarcerated

Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges discusses the forms of slavery and exploitation that thrive in today’s U.S. prison system with Eddie Conway, a former leader of the Black Panthers who was imprisoned for over 40 years.