LEASING CONVICTS.
It is not, it seems, only in South Africa that prisoners are leased ont as labourers, 430 men, women and children having been similarly disposed of recently at Albion, Florida,, by -which the State has been enriched by 21,000d01. They -were virtually sold for a year to the four contractors who made the highest bids for them. There is no penitentiary in Florida, and this is the system of dealing with prisoners. These convicts may be sub-leased by their owners, and they are mo_tly employed in the phosphate mines and turpentine camps of the State, as well as in road making. It is hardly to be wondered at thafc a committee of tho senators of the State Legislature last spring who visited the camps where these persons were employed found that in a majority of cases they had poor and insufficient food, and that they were made to live in miserable accommodation and were generally badly treated.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6138, 26 March 1898, Page 8
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159LEASING CONVICTS. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6138, 26 March 1898, Page 8
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