Convict laborers were often dismally treated, but the convict lease system was highly profitable for the states and the employers. As public sympathy grew towards the plight of convict laborers ...

The egregiousness of the violence and corruption of the system began to turn public opinion against convict leasing. Though many citizens and politicians wanted to abolish convict leasing ...

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and ...

They produced a podcast in collaboration with Reveal about the convict leasing period after the war, and then set their sights on following prison labor, focusing on agriculture because of its clear ...

Archeologists believe that the buried individuals — now known as the Sugar Land 95 — were part of an state-run convict-leasing program after the abolition of slavery in 1865, according to the ...

Following emancipation, however, former slave states exploited the clause in new ways, turning to convict-leasing as a means of re-subjugating Black Americans and shoring up white supremacy.

Imperial Sugar, however, has faced backlash due to its ties to convict leasing programs. In 2018, Fort Bend ISD discovered 95 unmarked graves during the construction of the James Reese Career and ...