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Helpful Resources:
Will Changes to Racist Names Include Prisons? | The Marshall Project: https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/07/29/will-the-reckoning-over-racist-names-include-these-prisons?fbclid=IwAR0odmtvcFH9mB4wk2acxqmvrmOdFHXBQd0TIIIw9_e6cwj0pbxYtUPHVBU
From Texas - Negroes and the Labor Question (NYT archive): https://www.nytimes.com/1865/07/16/archives/from-texas-negroes-and-the-labor-question-general-advance-in-wages.html
Punishment After Slavery: Southern State Penal Systems, 1865-1890: https://www.jstor.org/stable/800272
The Straight Line from Slavery to Private Prisons:https://lithub.com/the-straight-line-from-slavery-to-private-prisons/
Corrections Corporation of America to CoreCivic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreCivic
Slavery Haunts America's Plantation Prisons: https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2009/apr/15/slavery-haunts-americas-plantation-prisons-by-maya-schenwar/
NPR - How Prison Labor Contributes to the US Economy: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/884989263
The Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons: https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/color-of-justice-racial-and-ethnic-disparity-in-state-prisons/
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“Wishful Thinking” - Dan Lebowitz [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOg3zLw7St5V4N7O8HSoQRA]
