Punishments, injuries, and deaths—including from heat—on TDCJ farms are more hidden than they were in the years following convict leasing.
  • Flying Squid
    13•1 month ago

    Slavery, Texas Observer. Call it slavery. It may be legal, but it’s still slavery.

    Imagine how much more impact the headline would have been if it instead read: Texas’ Plantation Prisons: Inside a 200-Year History of Slavery Shrouded in Secrecy

    Because even “forced labor” doesn’t make it sound as bad as it actually is. Only one word does.