There are many things we interact with on a day-to-day basis that we see no deeper purpose in, canvas, the material being one of them. However, in prisons across the country, canvas straps are being used to unethically tie down prisoners for minimal offenses and tie down Black people to a mass incarceration system that is a modern form of slavery. We pride ourselves on being the home of the free, but not everyone is free. Writer Becca Langman explores the disparities in prisons that tie down Black people to a system full of injustice.
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