Imperial Sugar & Co. signed a contract with the Texas State Penitentiary to lease convicts as a cheap labor force. If the name Imperial...

According to the ACLU, the U.S. makes up about 5% of the global population but nearly 25% of the world’s prison population. As of 2015,...

In 2018, 95 remains of African American convict leasing laborers were unearthed during the construction of Fort Bend Independent School...

Introduction The Fort Bend Independent School District (FBISD) recently released a report regarding the “Sugar Land 95,” a document which...

Just like the slave system it replaced, convict leasing entrapped women as well as men. Dr. Theresa Jach explores the lives of women in a...

It is with a heavy heart that CLLP confirms the passing of our founder, Reginald Moore. We ask that you respect the privacy of the family...

What happens when emancipation doesn’t mean freedom? What are the oppressive histories that our history books failed to provide us?...

We came across this 2012 piece in the New York Times that offers some interesting perspectives on the treatment of unidentified remains:...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jay Jenkins, Vice-President Phone: (515) 229-6928 Email: jjenkins@texascjc.org Sugar Land, TX – The...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jay Jenkins, Vice-President Phone: (515) 229-6928 Email: jjenkins@texascjc.org Houston, TX – The Convict...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jay Jenkins, Vice-President Phone: (515) 229-6928 Email: jjenkins@texascjc.org FBISD Served with Cease and...

Turns out convict leasing has a Revolutionary War-era ancestor. As hundreds or even thousands of enslaved people began running away to...