In 1970, Parchman Farm was Mississippi's "oldest, biggest and most brutal penitentiary," according to the Washington Post. In this podcast the the Post, attorney Roy Haber talks about his experience at the prison, where "prisoners were out working the land like slaves on an old Mississippi plantation -- picking cotton, being whipped, dying in the fields, 20,000 acres of fields." Find out more about how Haber was involved in transforming "America’s definition of 'cruel and unusual punishment.'"
