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2. Convict leasing - Wikipedia

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   Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor that was practiced historically in the Southern United States, the laborers being mainly African-American men; it was ended during the 20th century. It provided prisoner labor to private parties, such as plantation owners and corporations (e.g. Tennessee Coal and Iron Company and Chattahoochee ...

3. List of death row inmates in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Murdered 20-year-old Navy Petty Officer Amanda Jean Snell in Virginia . 10 years, 87 days. Northern Neck Regional Jail. 16054-084. Avila-Torrez was later linked to the rapes and murders of eight-year-old Laura Hobbs and nine-year-old Krystal Tobias in his hometown of Zion, Illinois . Robert Gregory Bowers.

4. New Mexico State Penitentiary riot - Wikipedia

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   The New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, which took place on February 2 and 3, 1980, at the Penitentiary of New Mexico (PNM) south of Santa Fe, was the most violent prison riot in U.S. history. Inmates took complete control of the prison and twelve officers were taken hostage.

5. Prison–industrial complex - Wikipedia

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   Correctional populations in the U.S., 1980–2013 US timeline graphs of number of people incarcerated in jails and prisons [1]. The prison-industrial complex (PIC) is a term, coined after the "military-industrial complex" of the 1950s, [2] used by scholars and activists to describe the many relationships between institutions of imprisonment (such as prisons, jails, detention facilities, and ...

6. Penal labor in the United States - Wikipedia

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   t. e. In the United States, penal labor is a multi-billion-dollar industry. [ 1] Annually, incarcerated workers provide at least $9 billion in services to the prison system and produce more than $2 billion in goods. [ 2][ 3][ 4] The industry underwent many transitions throughout the late 19th and early and mid 20th centuries.

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