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Leon County Employees Replaced by Slaves
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1997, page 7
Leon County, Florida, sheriff Larry Campbell beamed with pride as he watched one of his campaign promises come true. Fourteen zebra-striped prisoners filed onto a bus waiting to take them to their first day of forced labor clearing brush along county roads. Campbell was especially proud of the lurid black ...
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