prisons - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com The Nation's Oldest Black Collegiate Newspaper Sat, 11 Feb 2017 22:32:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-NewHilltopLogo-32x32.jpg prisons - The Hilltop https://staging.thehilltoponline.com 32 32 248273635 COLUMN: Vaughn Rebellion and the Case Against Prisons https://staging.thehilltoponline.com/2017/02/11/column-vaughn-rebellion-and-the-case-against-prisons/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=column-vaughn-rebellion-and-the-case-against-prisons Sat, 11 Feb 2017 22:32:03 +0000 http://staging.thehilltoponline.com/?p=8981 By Juan McFarland, Contributing Writer Posted 5:30 PM EST, Sat., Feb. 11, 2017 On Feb. 1, prisoners at James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in Smyrna, Delaware organized an uprising, leaving one correctional officer dead and another vaguely injured. It was the 152nd anniversary of the 13th Amendment, which legalizes slavery as a punishment for crime. […]

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