A new educational exhibit has opened to honor the 95 people found in an unmarked prison cemetery on Fort Bend ISD property while crews were building a school in 2018. The exhibit is the first of several ways district officials said they plan to memorialize the 95 individuals, who are believed to be part of the state’s brutal convict leasing system which lasted until 1912. The Sugar Land 95 discovery is believed to be the first fully intact convict leasing cemetery to be discovered in the United States.
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