Before leaving the Mississippi Delta this summer, ...

2006-01-18T08:28:00.000-05:00

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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Before leaving the Mississippi Delta this summer, ...