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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I don't trust the motives of the people who would financially gain from the slavery. How long until paroles are denied because the prisoner is too valuable to production, or even worse, I could see people getting convicted to fill labour needs.
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It happened in the US after the emancipation proclomation was enforced after the Civil War. The state would incarcerate people of african decent, and then lease or lend them out as labourers. Often times incarcerating innocent men for the sole purpose of filling labour needs. This happened up until the 1930's I believe. There is a documentary about it called Slavery By Another Name.