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by geofft 1836 days ago
Near where I grew up there's a state prison called Angola, built in 1880 on the site of an old plantation called Angola. The slave quarters were repurposed as the original prisoner quarters. Mostly-black prisoners raise cotton and other crops for pennies on the hour, overseen by mostly-white officers called "freemen."

https://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/caseconsortium/casestud...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Penitentiary