Texas' plantation prisons: Inside a 200-year history of forced labor shrouded in secrecy
Punishments, injuries, and deaths—including from heat—on TDCJ farms are more hidden than they were in the years following convict leasing.
By Josephine Lee and Michelle Pitcher, The Texas Observer
Tags: Texas News, Texas prisons, plantation prisons, criminal justice, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, TDCJ, Lake Jackson Plantation, University of Texas Medical Branch, heat in prisons, prison deaths
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