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Robert Stark talks to commentator Charles Lincoln on slavery and the prison-industrial complex. Topics include:
- How imprisonment replaced slavery
- The 13th Amendment and the exception it made for imprisonment
- Prohibition and laws criminalizing what one does with their body
- American folk heroes that would be criminalized today and how the essence of America was “lawless freedom”
- The Prison Economy
- The creation of the Department of Justice and the Federal Prison System after the Civil War
- US Prison conditions and how they are worse than slavery
- Charles Lincoln’s Prison Experience
