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Vanity- Remember "Brubaker"?
n/a | 6/9/2012 | One Name

Posted on 06/09/2012 8:47:14 PM PDT by One Name

Toured the Cummins Unit of the Arkansas Department of Corrections last week. The only thing I could relate it to was Angola, LA.

The heat and haze was intense as the crews rode out and in on cart trains pulled by a tractor, with 5 armed horseback officers surrounding each 60-70 man detail.

18000 acres of bottom ground, much of which was vegetables that were hand-hoed by these crews to feed the rest of the ADC.

Its something you have to see to apprehend.


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: arkansas; prison
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1 posted on 06/09/2012 8:47:28 PM PDT by One Name
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To: One Name

Been there, Angola and Parchman when I was in the ag business.


2 posted on 06/09/2012 8:54:09 PM PDT by razorback-bert (I'm in shape. Round is a shape isn't it?)
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To: One Name
The only Brubaker I am aware of is Curtis Brubaker. He designed this in the late 60's. I wanted one...still do.


3 posted on 06/09/2012 8:59:30 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt the Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: razorback-bert

Parchman is the one I haven’t seen. They said something like 95% of the inmates at Angola would die there. The ones in the broom factory were happy to be out of the fields. The ones in the vegetable freezer plant thought they were already in heaven.


4 posted on 06/09/2012 9:00:55 PM PDT by One Name (Go to the enemy's home court and smoke his ass.)
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To: One Name

Brubaker was filmed outside of Columbus Ohio.


5 posted on 06/09/2012 9:02:09 PM PDT by whitedog57
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To: One Name

Je Me Souviens


6 posted on 06/09/2012 9:04:55 PM PDT by onona (So long Doc Watson, you were an inspiration.)
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To: whitedog57

the triangle where the bodies were buried is off the levee at Cummins.


7 posted on 06/09/2012 9:05:44 PM PDT by One Name (Go to the enemy's home court and smoke his ass.)
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To: onona

I don’t speak French.


8 posted on 06/09/2012 9:07:51 PM PDT by One Name (Go to the enemy's home court and smoke his ass.)
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To: One Name

Starred Saint Robert Redford, didn’t it?......


9 posted on 06/09/2012 9:15:26 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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“We Remember”


10 posted on 06/09/2012 9:19:53 PM PDT by onona (So long Doc Watson, you were an inspiration.)
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To: Intolerant in NJ

Building tenders was the story, not RR.

You’d have fared well I’m sure.


11 posted on 06/09/2012 9:24:53 PM PDT by One Name (Go to the enemy's home court and smoke his ass.)
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To: onona

I’m not just a bleeding heart- I;ve spent a long time in the business but injustice displeases our God.

Thanks.


12 posted on 06/09/2012 9:30:04 PM PDT by One Name (Go to the enemy's home court and smoke his ass.)
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To: whitedog57
Yeah. I was living on Columbus at the time. A lot of interesting stories came out about the old prison that was used for the film.
Not very many of the flattering to the Ohio Penal System at the time.
Many of the 'extras' were former prison inmates from the central Ohio area. A motley group to be sure.
13 posted on 06/09/2012 9:33:51 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus sum)
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To: Intolerant in NJ
Starred Saint Robert Redford, didn’t it?......

Yes - and a young Morgan Freeman.

14 posted on 06/09/2012 9:39:16 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Jimmy Carter's incompetence + Richard Nixon's paranoia = Barack Obama)
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To: One Name

huh ?


15 posted on 06/09/2012 10:14:11 PM PDT by onona (So long Doc Watson, you were an inspiration.)
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To: One Name; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; Perdogg

As I cruise the channels I see this movie in on often. Never watched it.


16 posted on 06/09/2012 10:17:07 PM PDT by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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I remembger well that AR once would brag, once in our prison system, it will make one think twice about coming back.


17 posted on 06/10/2012 1:16:23 AM PDT by Sea Parrot (Youth And Brawn Are No Match For Age And Treachery. I'm Old And May Not Fight. I'll Shoot Instead.)
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>Its something you have to see to apprehend.

This sentence in internally inconsistent - makes no sense.


18 posted on 06/10/2012 4:14:09 AM PDT by bill1952 (Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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To: Impy; One Name; fieldmarshaldj

Same here, although I did watch it about 10 years ago.

My opinion: Nothing memorable.


19 posted on 06/10/2012 5:28:44 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (The Glove don't fit.)
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To: One Name

Had these inmates no victims? Should the impoverished, sweating, laboring, ill-housed taxpayers of Arkansas dig a little deeper to pay for an air-conditioned life of leisure as a reward for criminals? Let’s not talk about injustice and God’s displeasure with a thumb on the scale.


20 posted on 06/10/2012 6:13:25 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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