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plantation prisons  

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  • The plantation model of imprisonment is an overall structure and philosophy of punishment that grew out of racist assumptions about the abilities of the mostly black convicts in the South who, initially, were former slaves. Traditional features of slave plantations combine to form the ideal type of the plantation model of imprisonment. [Source: Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities; Plantation Prisons]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-V033KB1W-T

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