Since the birth of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC), now called the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), Texas has used a not so subtle tool of profit and anti-social control to exploit its captives via unpaid forced labor. This method, both grassroots scholars and many average laymen agree on, is akin to a benign form of slavery – thus to say modern day slave labor. In fact Texas’ first form of prison management was on former slave plantations. … Continue reading Reliving the Past: A Hands-On Experience of Modern-Day Slave Labor in the Lone Star State