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29. That photo is of child convicts who were leased to farmers. It breaks my heart.

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Sat Jul 10, 2021, 10:08 AM

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All you need to know about Southern "justice" ... [View all] marble falls Jul 2021 OP

Awful. Elessar Zappa Jul 2021 #1

It also gives the prison reason to ensure no one Phoenix61 Jul 2021 #2

Good point. Elessar Zappa Jul 2021 #3

Two sheriffs ago, the county made the same agreement with a private prison company ... marble falls Jul 2021 #9

What?! smirkymonkey Jul 2021 #4

This is not only a "southern" issue, and not only a private prisons issue. WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2021 #5

All practices like that need to be stopped. Elessar Zappa Jul 2021 #8

Southern prisons add racism to the mix. My major point. marble falls Jul 2021 #10

Our entire "criminal justice" system is racist. WhiskeyGrinder Jul 2021 #15

Absolutely is, after all it's a construct of a White majority system. The southern system ... marble falls Jul 2021 #18

I guy I know did 18 months in a state-run prison. panader0 Jul 2021 #17

When it's a matter of choice, it's one thing. When it's induced by officials with a financial ... marble falls Jul 2021 #38

De facto slavery began just as Reconstruction ended paleotn Jul 2021 #6

And how many of those petty charges start off a traffic stop for a cracked tail-lite sort of ... marble falls Jul 2021 #12

my Grandfather was Chief of Police in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma in the 40s.. I have all his samnsara Jul 2021 #7

I find the title of this OP very dismaying to see on this forum. Hortensis Jul 2021 #11

Where you'd rather be arrested: Cleveland, Ohio or Selma, Alabama? Being from Ohio and living ... marble falls Jul 2021 #13

Falls, by any measure, your claim that this is all Hortensis Jul 2021 #20

Ignoring racism is the real "post-trutherism". Why are blacks incarcerated more? marble falls Jul 2021 #22

Encouraging people to think things are all bad is NOT the way Hortensis Jul 2021 #25

Some things ARE bad. I agree with the Southern Christian Poverty Center: marble falls Jul 2021 #27

Some things are bad everywhere. Hortensis Jul 2021 #28

My racist father used to day things like that. It's pretty close to a "reverse racism" argument ... marble falls Jul 2021 #39

The south is more virulently racist Elessar Zappa Jul 2021 #24

No one says it isn't. This is about the OP title's flaming. Hortensis Jul 2021 #26

Faces in the crowd. underpants Jul 2021 #14

The look of a plantation slave in the field peering up at the overseer. sop Jul 2021 #19

The top photograph is of children. Marcuse Jul 2021 #16

That photo is of child convicts who were leased to farmers. It breaks my heart. marble falls Jul 2021 #29

My first thought was that they were children KS Toronado Jul 2021 #33

Instead they were in adult prisons. marble falls Jul 2021 #35

Kick for facts on quotas needed to fulfill contract luckone Jul 2021 #21

K&R Solly Mack Jul 2021 #23

Private prisons have ZERO place in a democracy. wnylib Jul 2021 #30

As well as contract military and social services. marble falls Jul 2021 #31

Agree completely. wnylib Jul 2021 #36

Sounds like those contracts may be more than a little sketchy dlk Jul 2021 #32

All I need to know is I'll vote for whoever is the Democrat Ziggysmom Jul 2021 #34

Kick dalton99a Jul 2021 #37