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Texas prisons are named after slave owners. This is 2021, right? Texas prisons carry the legacy of slavery. They shouldn’t. An inmate works outdoors on the "hoe quad" outside a modern-day Texas prison unit in Huntsville, Texas on Thursday, June 25, 2015. (Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News)(Staff Photographer) In the midst of the nation’s reckoning with social justice issues and Confederate statues, it is time that corrections facilities in Texas no longer bear the names of people celebrated for their participation in slavery and Jim Crow politics. This isn’t a new idea but one that st...

Texas Pol James White Wants To Rename Prison Named for Slave Owner Where Inmates Pick Cotton On 1/29/21 at 8:45 PM EST A Republican Texas state representative is leading the charge to change the names of prisons with monikers that currently honor slave owners. State Rep. James White announced Friday that he is lobbying the Texas Board of Criminal Justice to rename multiple prisons that are named after slave owners. On the grounds of least one of the prisons, inmates continue to be forced to pick cotton without pay on the same land that slaves were forced to work over 150 years earlier.

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