Jailing Black people always had a profit motive

This article which is about using the criminal justice system to create neo-slavery. It has close parallels to the links between the end of lynching and the use of capital punishment mainly against black Americans: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/31/1831333/-TRUE-BLUE-REPORT-The-criminalization-of-being-black-has-always-had-a-profit-motive

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