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Slavery Haunts America?s Plantation Prisons--Angola Prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Slavery Haunts America?s Plantation Prisons Wednesday, 03 September 2008 Black Agenda Report by Maya Schenwar Angola Prison Angola Prison isn't "even really a metaphor for slavery. Slavery is what's going on." The plantation prisons of Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas are the closest approximation to America's peculiar institution - places where involuntary servitude is legal under the 13th Amendment. And like slaves, most Angola prisoners will die on the plantation, "due to some of the harshest sentencing practices in the country." Angola prisoners are paid anywhere from four to twenty cents per hour...and only get to keep half of that." The rest is put away for after their release - a day that most will never see. by Maya Schenwar This article originally appeared in Truthout...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 04, 2008 (boomark / email).