The Concust Leasing System in the South

In 1871, the Supreme Court in Virginia ruled that it was appropriate and lawful that convicted people could be quote unquote, slaves of the state. So if Eastern State and other penitentiaries began the culture of criminality or seeing law breaking as an affliction in need of a cure to imprisonment, then the Black codes in Jim Crow laws began a culture of assigning criminality to a particular group of people., Khalil says.