Louisiana State University professor John Bardes is the author of "The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930." Louisiana's modern network of prisons and ...
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The brutality of 19th-century prisons
No matter how hardline you are on law and order, we can all agree that prisons should not be literal hellholes. But in the 19th century, that's what many of them were. From solitary confinement to ...
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