Before founding the Corrections Corporation of America, a $1.8 billion private prison corporation now known as CoreCivic, Terrell Don Hutto ran a cotton plantation the size of Manhattan. There, mostly black convicts were forced to pick cotton from dawn to dusk for no pay. It was 1967 and the Beatles’ “All you need is love” was a hit, but the men in the fields sang songs with lyrics like “Old Master don’t you whip me, I’ll give you half a dollar.” Hutto’s family lived on the plantation and even had a “house boy,” an unpaid convict who served them.
fuckin…what!!!
please tell me that was closed down in the 60s and 2018 was just when the article ran?
That whole article is worth a read.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250628151843/https://time.com/5405158/the-true-history-of-americas-private-prison-industry/
Haha nope, still going. The guards are on horses and have whips and everything, it’s surreal