The Missouri State Penitentiary

In 18 36 it opened. Almost a hundred years later, it was the largest penitentiary in the us. Out of those 15 people that were incarcerated, 11 of them were from saint louis. And all but one of those 11 were imprison for larceny. So pretty soon, or pretty much as soon as it opened, the missouri state penitentiary had a programme where, hey, would, quote, lease out inmates to business men for labor,. which iper riskly slave labor.