Locked up: the prison labor that built business empires
by Margie Mason and Robin McDowell — More than 150 years ago, a prison complex known as the Lone Rock stockade operated at one of the biggest coal mines in Tennessee. It was powered largely by African American men who had been arrested for minor offenses – like stealing a hog – if they committed any […]
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by Margie Mason and Robin McDowell — More than 150 years ago, a prison complex known as the Lone Rock stockade operated at one of the biggest coal mines in Tennessee. It was powered largely by African American men who had been arrested for minor offenses – like stealing a hog – if they committed any […] 
