Ryan Rummel: From Jails to Factories
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Ryan Rummel brings a pretty haunting and sobering short about the transition of this country's detention system from small jails for the first three hundred years of our history into the giant prison industry complex of today.
Full Article
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2013-jun-ryan-rummel-from-jails-to-factories-
I read a late 19th century account of a convict camp in Florida titled American Siberia. Very brutal.
https://books.google.com/books?id=nn5BAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=american+siberia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWwOO_sZvNAhXFTSYKHab_BE8Q6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=american%20siberia&f=false (https://books.google.com/books?id=nn5BAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=american+siberia&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWwOO_sZvNAhXFTSYKHab_BE8Q6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=american%20siberia&f=false)