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Twilight of the Chain Gang
Wilson, Walter | January 13, 1940 issue

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For half a century the South's penal system has been considered particularly cruel and degrading. Many writers have exposed the shocking conditions in prisons and brutalities of the chain gangs, and painted horrifying pictures of convicts tortured in steel cages, flogged to death or making desperate efforts to escape, pursued by bloodhounds and men with shotguns. After abolition of the private lease the local governments took over the machinery of justice, but proved only slightly more humane.

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PRISONS; CRUELTY; CHAIN gangs; LOCAL government; JUSTICE; CONVICT labor
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