Lydia Pelot-Hobbs is an assistant professor of Geography and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky where she teaches and writes on mass incarceration, racial capitalism and social movements.
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Louisiana’s Prison System—Brought to You by Big Oil
How oil money turned Louisiana into the prison capital of the world.
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
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