worgens:via-hermes:darkbornsirius:lagonegirl:http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/what_sta
worgens:via-hermes:darkbornsirius:lagonegirl:http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/what_state_prisoners_get_to_wo.htmlOMG We need to serperate from these demons if we are going to survivethis is wild and should not be legal i normally do not add commentary to posts ever, but i do have a disgusting personal experience that i feel further reveals how prisoners in louisiana are treated.in 7th grade i attended a 99.9% white, private school in southern louisiana called kehoe-france northshore. and they took us 7th graders on a field trip to angola. yes, a field trip to a state prison. not only that, but it was a bunch of rich white kids visiting a predominantly black prison.it was about as terrible as you can imagine. our guides: teachers and the prison’s employees alike (ALL WHITE MIND YOU), treated it overall like a fun trip to the zoo. the inmates, almost all black, were presented before us throughout the tour like zoo animals for us to observe.the tour guides spoke to us about the inmates as if they were less than human. as if their lives and labor meant nothing. i specifically remember a guide telling us how the prisoners who tried to escape via a nearby river almost always drowned in their attempt, as if it was a fun fact.im still not sure what the point of that awful field trip was, but i will say the adults involved did their best to dehumanize the almost entirely black prison population. we weren’t brought there to sympathize with those who were incarcerated. we were brought there to gawk at enslaved black people. -- source link
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