Over zealous prosecutors seeking political gains have trumped up charges against innocents who lack the means for adequate legal counsel relying on an under funded, dysfunctional and overburdened public defender system. 
Because an inmate is found guilty or forced to plead guilty under the threat of a greater sentence for going to trial, or an attack on one’s family members, it doesn’t mean that person has committed a crime.

There are hundreds if not thousands of Americans who are serving draconian sentences as the result of prison profittering.  African Americans and Latinos are disproportionally chattel for this modern day form of slavery and genocide in America.

The judicial and prison systems in America have indeed replaced the slave trade which will leave yet another ugly scare on America’s historical canvass—–a mark she won’t be able to erase for centuries to come.