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Slavery Haunts America's Plantation Prisons, by Maya Schenwar

by Maya Schenwar, Truthout

On an expanse of 18,000 acres of farmland, 59 miles northwest of Baton Rouge, long rows of men, mostly African-American, till the fields under the hot Louisiana sun. The men pick cotton, wheat, soybeans and corn. They work for pennies, literally. Armed guards, mostly white, ride ...

 

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