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Thursday, April 06, 2006
Chain Gangs
Dana Rohrabacher: Convicts can pick the fruit
Crooks and Liars has video of the California congressman suggesting using prisoners to work the farms.
To find out more about this idea, here is a good book on prison labor:
One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South, 1866–1928 from the University of South Carolina Press. From the book:
"Before the war, we owned the negroes," a Southern businessman reflected nostalgically. "If a man had a good negro, he could afford to keep him.... But these convicts, we don't own 'em. One dies, get another."
Written at 1:02 PM by Lynne.
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