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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there any incentive to obey laws anymore ?[/quote]
Is there anywhere in the constitution that states that if you go to prison you lose the right to vote? Serious question.[/quote] where does it say prisoners lose their gun rights ?[/quote]

There’s a logical nexus with that prohibition. Taking away the right to vote was implemented during Jim Crow era. It was part and parcel with mass incarceration of black people at the turn of the century.[/quote]

What was the mass incarceration of black people at the turn of the century? I am not doubting you--just had not heard of a mass incarceration between 1895 and 1905? That turn of the century?[/quote]

Slavery had made the South’s agriculture-based economy the most powerful force in the global cotton market, but the Civil War devastated this economy.  How to build a new one?

Well, after the Civil War, slavery persisted in the form of convict leasing, a system in which Southern states leased prisoners to private railways, mines, and large plantations.

Here’s how it worked. Black men – and sometimes women and children – were arrested and convicted for crimes enumerated in the Black Codes, state laws criminalizing petty offenses and aimed at keeping freed people tied to their former owners’ plantations and farms. The most sinister crime was vagrancy – the “crime” of being unemployed – which brought a large fine that few blacks could afford to pay.

Black convicts were leased to private companies, typically industries profiteering from the region’s untapped natural resources. As many as 200,000 black Americans were forced into back-breaking labor in coal mines, turpentine factories and lumber camps. They lived in squalid conditions, chained, starved, beaten, flogged and sexually violated. They died by the thousands from injury, disease and torture.

Black orphaned children and juvenile offenders could be bought to serve as laborers for white planters in many Southern states from 1865 until the 1940s.

Mass incarceration.

[img]https://eji.org/files/styles/header_image_cropped__1024x492_/public/convict-leasing.jpg?itok=QTOQcbzu[/img][/quote]

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