Convict laborers were often dismally treated, but the convict lease system was highly profitable for the states and the employers. As public sympathy grew towards the plight of convict laborers ...

As much as 30% of the firefighters force in California may be prison inmates, according to reports. How did we get here? And ...

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The egregiousness of the violence and corruption of the system began to turn public opinion against convict leasing. Though many citizens and politicians wanted to abolish convict leasing ...

No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a ...