On this day, April 8, in 1911, an explosion at the Banner Coal Mine in Littleton, Ala., claimed the lives of 128 men ??– 122 of which were convicts loaned out from prisons. Of the 122 prisoners killed ...

“A female convict on the (Western North Carolina Railroad), emptied a phial of sulphuric acid into the coffee of Mr. Griffin, the newly appointed Steward, but he did not like the taste, so the poison ...

The mostly-forgotten history of Tennessee's convict leasing, which used prison labor to mine coal in the mountains during the 1800s, is being brought to light by a team of professors and genealogists ...