The complaint notes that while 26.8% of Alabama’s population identifies as Black or African American, double that percentage constitutes the Black incarcerated population. Drawing historical parallels, the group compares the alleged labor-trafficking scheme to the enslavement of individuals in Alabama’s cotton fields and subsequent sharecropping and convict leasing practices post-Civil War.

https://seattlemedium.com/allegations-of-modern-day-slavery-emerge-as-alabama-inmates-sue-state-officials-and-corporations/

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