The prison farm operation generated well over $1 million a year for the state. ... Parchman in Mississippi (1901), and Cummins Farm (1902). ... the Thirteenth Amendment, ...

The Thirteenth Amendment forbade slavery and involuntary servitude, ... Angola and Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as Parchman Farm) among them.

That in Mississippi’s Parchman Farm and the former Louisiana plantation known as Angola Farm (Black prisoners make up 70 percent and 75 percent of their populations, respectively), the prisoners ...

Mississippi State Prison in Parchman, Mississippi, has a long history as a penitentiary. And it features as a haunted setting in Jesmyn Ward’s National Award-winning 2017 novel “Sing, Unburied ...

Mississippi’s Parchman Farm state prison has seen nine inmate deaths in the past month. But while lawmakers and some advocates have called for increased funding, the deeper problem is that there ...

Roy Haber was going to see about a prisoner. It was 1970, and he was driving up Highway 51 through the Yazoo Delta to Parchman Farm: Mississippi’s oldest, biggest and most brutal penitentiary ...

Days after the official nationwide abolition of slavery in December 1865, Alabama made it illegal for Black farm employees to sell a long list of foods, including corn, rice, cotton and “animal ...