13th (it’s about the Amendment)

Incarceration in America

Film by Ava Duvernay about the way the 13th Amendment has been misused. Rather than ending slavery, it has retained it through a loophole in the amendment about prison:

Published by The New Plantation

I am a retired teacher. I spent three years of my career teaching English to 16 to 18 year old incarcerated males on Rikers Island in New York City. My experiences there are what got me fired up about what's happening in this country with regard to incarceration.

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