Profiting from prisoners: Communities and companies made money off George Floyd’s imprisonment. Inside, Floyd withered.

The prison transport to this tiny city north of Austin took George Floyd past ranch land and cotton fields — worlds away from his home in Houston. But for the then-36-year-old Floyd, the spring of 2009 was another turn through a cycle of incarceration that would be both familiar and futile.

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