A Country Called Prison: Mass Incarceration and the Making of a New Nation

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This occurred in Medieval England particularly with regard to statutes passed concerning debt, insolvency, and bankruptcy.

Debtors' prisons swelled thereafter.

We also know from history that the re-enslavement of African-Americans immediately after the Civil War and thereafter have also caused the prisons to swell.

This could also be looked at as a form of capitalization of people and their labor.

The 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was used as fuel for this to occur.

"Slavery" was removed from individuals, but not from governments.