Modern Slavery: How America’s prison factory works – By Albert Baldeo

MODERN DAY SLAVERY IN AMERICA

How America’s prison factory works

BY ALBERT BALDEO

Invictus

•      Out of the night that covers me, 
•       Black as the pit from pole to pole, 
•      I thank whatever gods may be 
•       For my unconquerable soul. 
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•      In the fell clutch of circumstance 
•       I have not winced nor cried aloud. 
•      Under the bludgeonings of chance 
•       My head is bloody, but unbowed. 
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•      Beyond this place of wrath and tears 
•       Looms but the Horror of the shade, 
•      And yet the menace of the years 
•       Finds and shall find me unafraid. 
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•      It matters not how strait the gate, 
•       How charged with punishments the scroll, 
•      I am the master of my fate, 
•       I am the captain of my soul. 

     -WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY