Decades of yearbooks from school put online
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Andrew Bell
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ASHDOWN The Ashdown School District recently uploaded the last high school yearbooks needed to fill out the online yearbook section of its website, cataloging pages for every available year from 1934 to 2020.
Ronda Pounds, public relations coordinator for the Ashdown School District, said this has been a process ongoing since about 2016, when Oklahoma Correctional Industries talked with Ashdown High School librarian Sandy Smith about scanning the school s yearbooks, called Panther Eyes. Oklahoma Correctional Industries is a commercial arm of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections that reaches out to school districts in surrounding states to digitize high school yearbooks.
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Originally published on May 8, 2021 5:11 am
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution bans slavery and involuntary servitude except as a punishment for a crime. Texas lawmakers are proposing
an amendment to the state constitution that would ban such forced labor for any reason including as punishment.
David Johnson, co-founder of the Coalition to Abolish Slavery – Texas, said he hopes a constitutional amendment would end the use of forced labor in the prison system.
Texas Correctional Industries, a for-profit operation within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, uses unpaid inmate labor to manufacturer things like shoes, soaps and license plates. According to the department s 2019 annual report, TCI made $73.8 million in sales across 33 facilities.