http://dollarsandsense.org/blog/2006/01/before-katrina-modern-day-debtors-prison-in-gulfport-ms.html The Blog for Dollars & Sense Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:37:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://dollarsandsense.org/blog/2006/01/before-katrina-modern-day-debtors-prison-in-gulfport-ms.html/comment-page-1#comment-2 Susan Wed, 18 Jan 2006 13:28:23 +0000 http://dandsblog.wordpress.com/2006/01/17/before-katrina-modern-day-debtors-prison-in-gulfport-ms#comment-2 Before leaving the Mississippi Delta this summer, only two weeks before Katrina, I'd heard whispers that debtors' prisons were still a fact of life in Mississippi. At the turn of the century, before Parchman Penetentiary was built, convicts were leased out and literally worked to death in the cotton fields and elsewhere. Somehow, I'd set this new information aside since it was so incredible. But now I'm a believer that <>the past is still the present<> in the Magnolia state. Great first story! Susan Klopfer Before leaving the Mississippi Delta this summer, only two weeks before Katrina, I’d heard whispers that debtors’ prisons were still a fact of life in Mississippi. At the turn of the century, before Parchman Penetentiary was built, convicts were leased out and literally worked to death in the cotton fields and elsewhere. Somehow, I’d set this new information aside since it was so incredible. But now I’m a believer that <>the past is still the present<> in the Magnolia state. Great first story! Susan Klopfer

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