A prisoner works on the lawn at the Dade Correctional Institution In 2014, in Florida City, Fla. It's in your civics classes. The 13th Amendment of the US Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolished ...
Incarcerated in 1994 at the age of 19, Carlos Smith’s first job was working on an assembly line making paper folders for 20 cents per hour. His sentence was commuted in 2025. Smith fights to end these ...
The bronze historical plaque will be installed at the site of a St. Louis slave prison once owned by Bernard M. Lynch, a nationally known trader of enslaved men, women and children. A five-year effort ...
A group of current and former Alabama prisoners are alleging that the state's prison labor practices amount to a "modern-day form of slavery," according to a complaint filed in federal court this week ...
A former state prison inmate who fathered a child with a prison counselor while serving time in a Jackson-area prison is suing the Michigan Department of Corrections and state officials, saying he was ...
New claims that Alabama is quietly running a labor-trafficking scheme, using prisoners to farm out for fast food and factory jobs, took Darrell Latham back to his time in state custody, when he once ...
In somber remarks, President Obama said visiting a slave trading outpost in Ghana brought him both sadness and hope. Obama remarks came after a tour of the Cape Coast Castle, which sits on Ghana’s ...
“If you look at the history of agriculture in the United States, it’s built on dispossession, it’s built on enslavement,” says Joshua Sbicca, director of the Prison Agriculture Lab, and the legacy of ...
Allison Mack, ‘Smallville’ Star and NXIVM Sex “Slave” Recruiter, Released From Prison One Year Early
Allison Mack, the former actor who was convicted for her role in recruiting women into the NXIVM sex cult, was released from prison on Monday (July 3), according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons ...
“Smallville” actress Allison Mack has been released from federal prison after serving less than two years behind bars for her role as a “slave master” in the upstate Nxivm sex cult. Mack, 40, was ...
Recently, a New York State Assembly Member introduced legislation in Albany to end the practice of forced prison labor, and to require that incarcerated people make at least minimum wage for their ...
When Isaac Franklin died in 1846, he owned a swath of plantations in central Louisiana — and at least 600 enslaved people. As king of the domestic slave trade, he got rich trafficking people before ...
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