October 31, 1891

[Omaha Steve]

X post in Labor and Socialist-progressive

http://nhlabornews.com/2014/10/october-31-1891/



In response to an ongoing attempt by coal mine owners to replace miners with convicts leased by the state, a group of miners burn the Tennessee Coal Mining Company stockade in Briceville and seize the Knoxville Iron Company stockade at Coal Creek, freeing over 300 convicts and supplying them with food and civilian clothes.

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[PeoViejo]

1. An earlier example of the Prison-Industrial Complex

So, now, the Work is brought to the Prison instead of the Prisoners brought to the Work.