the problem of the expense and difficulty of housing convicts remained. Chain gangs developed as a popular solution to that problem. Chain gangs were groups of convicts forced to labor at tasks ...

“We were up for 24 hours wrapped in chains,” she said. Core Civic, the private company that owns the Otay Mesa facility, said it provides three “nutritious” meals a day to inmates.

“We were up for 24 hours wrapped in chains,” she said. Core Civic, the private company that owns the Otay Mesa facility, said it provides three “nutritious” meals a day to inmates.

Eventually, many southern states stopped leasing out their convict laborers, instead keeping them to work on public projects in chain gangs.