• 49:10 - 53:41
Dr. Angela J. Hattery & Dr. Earl Smith | Policing Black Bodies, Prison Inc., & The Poverty Trap
Prison Labor, 13th Amendment Loophole and Parchman Penitentiary
Greg Carlwood and the guests discuss the 13th Amendment's loophole allowing involuntary servitude as punishment for a crime. They describe "plantation prisons" like Parchman Penitentiary in Mississippi, which transitioned from cotton to lucrative catfish farming. Dr. Smith explains how these prison industries use free labor to undercut private businesses, effectively continuing a form of "soft slavery" through the state-sanctioned extraction of work.
13th amendmentprison laborparchman farmcatfish farmingplantation prisons