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Re:Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies? by stonecraftwolf on Saturday January 30, 2021 @11:37AM (#25970466)
IIRC the first prison in the US was established in Auburn, NY specifically because slavery had been outlawed and some sociopath was like “ok, yeah, technically, but if we just convict them of a crime first...”
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Re:Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies? by ceejayoz on Saturday January 30, 2021 @01:33PM (#25971573)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_State_Penitentiary serves as a notable modern example.
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Re:Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies? by lupire on Saturday January 30, 2021 @04:04PM (#25972967)
No. The Auburn prison was not the first prison, and it employed prisoner slave labor before slavery was outlawed.

Prison slavery existed before chattel slavery was rerouted through the prison system.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auburn_system

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