Location
Providence College
Event Website
https://health-policy-management.providence.edu/annual-conference/
Start Date
23-4-2021 12:30 PM
End Date
23-4-2021 2:00 PM
Description
This research explores the connections between convict leasing in the state of Mississippi and the current state of prison labor at Parchman Farm Penitentiary (Mississippi State Penitentiary). The use of unpaid labor, the grossly disproportionate representation of Black men, the inhumane and grotesque conditions of the prison, the abnormally high death rate, and the continued execution of a disproportionate number of Black men of today’s Parchman Farm and the version of the prison at its initial founding in 1901 will be analyzed. All of these factors combined provide the foundation for the argument that slavery never ended in the state of Mississippi, and is perpetuated to this day through the institution of Parchman Farm Penitentiary.
Parchman Farm Penitentiary Exists as Modern Day Slavery
Providence College
This research explores the connections between convict leasing in the state of Mississippi and the current state of prison labor at Parchman Farm Penitentiary (Mississippi State Penitentiary). The use of unpaid labor, the grossly disproportionate representation of Black men, the inhumane and grotesque conditions of the prison, the abnormally high death rate, and the continued execution of a disproportionate number of Black men of today’s Parchman Farm and the version of the prison at its initial founding in 1901 will be analyzed. All of these factors combined provide the foundation for the argument that slavery never ended in the state of Mississippi, and is perpetuated to this day through the institution of Parchman Farm Penitentiary.
https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/auchs/2021/panel3/1
