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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Margie Mason

AP PHOTOS: A lens on prison labor

When Bruce Jackson was allowed into Texas prisons in the 1960s with a camera, he documented how little had changed from the past with men working in the heat on former slave plantations. He’s struck by how those images remain relevant today — more than six decades later.

Jackson’s searing black-and-white photos documented not just work in the fields, but life inside Southern prisons during the Civil Rights Movement — a time when the country was deeply divided.

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