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.