The imprisoned were then ‘‘leased’’ to businesses and farms, where they labored under brutal conditions.
This is slavery but just under a different name. I wonder how this is legal?
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‘‘to have the right hand cut off . . . the head severed from the body, the body divided into four quarters
Columbus did this to to the original settlers.
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In the early 1970s, our prisons held fewer than 300,000 people; since then, that number has grown to more than 2.2 million, with 4.5 million more on probation or parole.
I wonder why this number has grown so much?
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