Gold farmers

[Aabidano]

Why am I not surprised...

As a prisoner at the Jixi labour camp, Liu Dali would slog through tough days breaking rocks and digging trenches in the open cast coalmines of north-east China. By night, he would slay demons, battle goblins and cast spells.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ma ... aming-scam

Similar practices are supposedly very widespread in China and have been forever basically. People being people it's what you (eventually) end up with when you have a society with intense government secrecy.

US jails\prisons have been busted doing similar things, nowhere near the same scale or duration though.

[Hesten]

Have any US jail been using the prisoners as WOW gold farmers?

[Aabidano]

Wasn't only blacks, but they're the most numerous and well documented, still happening today:

Under laws enacted specifically to intimidate blacks, tens of thousands of African Americans were arbitrarily arrested, hit with outrageous fines, and charged for the costs of their own arrests. With no means to pay these ostensible “debts,” prisoners were sold as forced laborers to coal mines, lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, quarries and farm plantations. Thousands of other African Americans were simply seized by southern landowners and compelled into years of involuntary servitude. Government officials leased falsely imprisoned blacks to small-town entrepreneurs, provincial farmers, and dozens of corporations—including U.S. Steel Corp.—looking for cheap and abundant labor. Armies of "free" black men labored without compensation, were repeatedly bought and sold, and were forced through beatings and physical torture to do the bidding of white masters for decades after the official abolition of American slavery.