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25 Jun 2023, 11:05 am

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25 Jun 2023, 10:54 pm

Essentially, it was a way to crack down on prostitution, even though plenty of non-prostitutes got caught in the dragnet.


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25 Jun 2023, 11:09 pm

Two questions:

1. Is this still going on?

2. If not, are the perpetrators still alive?



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26 Jun 2023, 8:18 am

The article ends as follows:

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Enforcement of the American Plan ended by the 1970s, amid the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, the women’s lib movement and the sex-workers-rights movement. It had lasted in many places for half a century; but today, half a century later, few people have ever heard of it. Even fewer are aware that the American Plan laws—the ones passed in the late 1910s, enabling officials to examine people merely “reasonably suspected” of having STIs—are still on the books, in some form, in every state in the nation. Some of these laws have been altered or amended, and some have been absorbed into broader public-health statutes, but each state still has the power to examine “reasonably suspected” people and isolate the infected ones, if health officials deem such isolation necessary.


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26 Jun 2023, 10:16 am



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26 Jun 2023, 10:43 am

In the post Civil War Jim Crow South men were the targets of temporary "round ups" ...vagrants public drunks and others...on flimsy charges...when local industry need temporary slave labor. The local government would lease you out as part of chain gang to do some seasonal scut work...like harvest tar in the pine forests. Usually Blacks, but many Whites would get caught up in it. Many died from overwork or flogging.

All enabled by one little loophole in the laws that abolished slavery..."you cant own folks or put them them into involuntary servitude...except as punishment for a crime.

When ya think about it...this system of "non slavery slavery" had a certain twisted genius to it. In the old days private individuals owned the slaves and therefore had to be responsible for the feeding and upkeep of their own slaves. But this post bellum slavery was the best of both world...private companies got to rent temporary slaves, and the upkeep for the slaves was paid for by the taxpayer! Or the slaves had to support themselves after a brief incarceration, but could never really be free because they might be arrested again at a moments notice.