“Locked Up: The Prison Labor the Built Business Empires” is live on Reveal

This week, over 1 million people listening on over 560 public radio stations across North America will hear the story of the Lone Rock Stockade and convict leasing in Tennessee and Alabama. AP reporters Margie Mason, Robin McDowell, and Reveal senior producer Michael Montgomery have spent the last year investigating the Lone Rock Stockade, Tennessee Coal and Iron, U.S. Steel, and other vestiges of this deadly and brutal history. They do an incredible job of bringing this history into the present and illuminating how something that happened over a century ago can still affect communities today. You can listen to the podcast at https://revealnews.org/podcast/locked-up-the-prison-labor-that-built-business-empires/