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  Louisiana makes a shit ton of money farming out their prisoners to Private Industry for no wage/high profits. It's a huge profitable business for the state.
context: Louisiana’s prison system is slavery by another name. Plain and simple. It’s the modern face of the American institution of slavery. >
  
  This rodeo makes a shit ton of money now too. >
  
  
  Louisiana is remarkable for its use of the forced labor of incarcerated people. In Louisiana, mostly Black prisoners pick cotton, at gunpoint, on former slave plantations. They have cleaned up the 2010 BP oil spill, have staffed “prison rodeos,” where vulnerable inmates are charged by a bull for public entertainment, and have cleaned and cooked meals in the state Capitol.
  
  So it's literally just slavery. 
  Also, I feel like you could fill in the blank in "Louisiana's _____ is part of a deeply rooted pattern" with almost anything and it would still make sense. >
  
  It always comes back to incentives. Stop paying for inmates the moment their sentence is up and they will be released posthaste.