Convicts are returning to farming – anti-immigrant policies are the reason

Prison inmates are picking fruits and vegetables at a rate not seen since Jim Crow. Convict leasing for agriculture – a system that allows states to sell prison labor to private farms – became infamous in the late 1800s for the brutal conditions it imposed on captive, mostly black workers. Federal and state laws prohibited convict leasing for most of the 20th century, but the once-notorious practice is making a comeback

http://theconversation.com/convicts-are-returning-to-farming-anti-immigrant-policies-are-the-reason-117152