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... > social science subjects > psychology > behavior mechanisms > human development > birth and infancy > labor > plantation prisons
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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > penology > prisons and correctional facilities > history of prisons > labor > plantation prisons
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plantation prisons  

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  • The plantation model of imprisonment is an overall structure and philosophy of punishment that grew out of racist assumptions about the abilities of the mostly black convicts in the South who, initially, were former slaves. Traditional features of slave plantations combine to form the ideal type of the plantation model of imprisonment. [Source: Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities; Plantation Prisons]

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