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  • In this Aug. 18, 2011 photo, a prison guard rides a horse alongside prisoners as they return from farm work detail at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment's exception clause, that allows for prison labor, provided legal cover to round up thousands of mostly young Black men. They then were leased out by states to plantations like Angola and some of the country's biggest privately owned companies, including coal mines and railroads. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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    Prisoners in Alabama and Louisiana sue over forced prison labor
    Pat Duggins
    Inmates in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands. A hidden path to America's dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country's largest maximum-security prison. Alabama Public Radio’s national award-winning series “No Stone Unturned: Preserving Slave Cemeteries in Alabama” aired just as voters headed to the polls in 2023 to remove slavery from the State Constitution. Much of that labor, it was observed, happened among prison inmates.
  • Politics & Government
    Alabama 2nd Lowest in SE in Unemployment
    The Associated Press
    Alabama had the second lowest unemployment rate in the Southeast in July. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that Virginia's rate of 5.7 percent…