Anonymous selene_vespra 15w

Officially and legally speaking these are private prisons, but they are literally built on the same land as former plantations, often owned by the same families that ran the slave and sharecropping plantations, and incarnate black people at a widely disproportionate rate for largely manufactured crimes like cannabis possession

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Anonymous OP 15w

Well this is already a well known thing (not like being a dick) the 14th I think (could be wrong) is the amendment that makes a silly little loophole for slavery in imprisonment

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Anonymous OP 15w

They make their states millions of dollars every year off the forced labor of these inmates, who work the fields for a few cents a day. Look up Louisiana State Penitentiary for an especially egregious example, it’s built on the 18,000 acre Angola plantation which has basically housed slaves of some form ever since its inception. The historical progression is very easy to trace

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Anonymous OP 15w

People don’t realize how egregious it is though, it’s literally the same white families continuing to oppress the descendants of the same black families who they formerly enslaved, all on the exact same land this whole time and complete with rifle-armed overseers on horseback

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Anonymous #2 15w

When you are born in state-manufactured poverty and convicted to a multi-year, life ruining sentence where you do forced labor over some bullshit law that the government designed specifically to arrest black people, that’s basically the same thing

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Anonymous OP 15w

Look up convict leasing, which was the more-obvious precursor to this slightly more concealed system

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