Convict leasing

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Convict leasing has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.

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Andrew JareckiAmerican filmmaker and documentarian, director of The Jinx and co-director of The Alabama Solution

  • Jarecki argues Alabama's prison labor program is not merely like historical convict leasing but is literally convict leasing.

    “what we're seeing in Alabama now, it's not like convict leasing. It is exactly convict leasing. They are just selling the labor of incarcerated people to industries”

    The Joe Rogan Experience: #2475 - Andrew Jarecki (Mar 27, 2026) · Listen from 25:36

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  • #2475 - Andrew Jarecki

    The Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 27, 2026 · 2 h 47 min

    Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki tells Joe Rogan how he documented deaths, drugs and forced labor inside Alabama's prisons, and revisits his Robert Durst film The Jinx.