215 bodies, known to the police, found in unmarked graves behind jail in Jackson, Mississippi
www.wsws.org
The families of those buried in the pauper’s field behind the Hinds County Penal Farm were never informed of the death of their loved ones.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/13770981

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11001928

Families were actively not informed of their loved ones deaths, and inmates were made to dig the holes and bury the bodies of the dead. This is getting massively underreported and happened earlier this month, I bet you haven’t heard about it.

  • spider@beehaw.org
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    5 months ago

    Reminds me of the old Florida School for Boys:

    Because of questions about the number of deaths at the school and a high number of unmarked graves, the state authorized a forensic anthropology survey by University of South Florida in 2012. They identified 55 burials on the grounds, most outside the cemetery, and documented nearly 100 deaths at the school.