Will The Reckoning Over Racist Names Include These Prisons?

Historians including Robert Perkinson and Monica Muñoz Martinez discuss the impact of having today's cruelly punitive prisons named for racist figures of the Jim Crow era.

The NYT says Sugarland, Texas needs to come to terms with its past

by Brent Staples

In an extraordinary full-page editorial the Times recounts Sugarland's gruesome convict leasing system and its forgotten history.