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guillaumeb

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4. "Auction blocks to cell blocks..."

Reply to bravenak (Reply #1)

Mon May 11, 2015, 05:33 PM

May 2015

Right on target. Slave labor became prison labor and work farm labor. The US had to do something to control all those freed slaves. Might as well get some free labor out of them and provide jobs for white men in rural areas.
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There are more men under correctional control today then were under slavery in 1850... [View all] Playinghardball May 2015 OP

Prison is the New Slavery. bravenak May 2015 #1

That is certainly what the privatized hifiguy May 2015 #3

The only legal slavery left is in prison. This needs to end. bravenak May 2015 #5

"Auction blocks to cell blocks..." guillaumeb May 2015 #4

Exactly. Good link, thanks! bravenak May 2015 #6

Not a coincidence. Variety of reasons, voting the main one, why this was done on purpose. randys1 May 2015 #2

list of known democrats calling for end to privatized legal system and prisons: msongs May 2015 #7