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Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

Everybody does an amazing job in it.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

Look at it like a classic novel that you just have to read before you die because I think that would be a good approach to it.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

I remember we talked about reading Moby Dick and a couple of people wrote in there like, Josh, do not waste your time.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

It is not worth reading.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

And I'm just going to go with their interpretation.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

I like Bartleby the Scrivener, but I'm not sure I could take hundreds and hundreds of pages of that writing.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

I'm sorry, Joey.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

Right.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

The ones that went back to England were like, I really miss the tasteless cuisine of home.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

So one of the, it has for sure.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

One of the other things that had to evolve for prison labor to become an actual thing in the United States was prisons themselves.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

Like at the same time when they were still crazy about the stocks and indentured servitude, like you had jails.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

You didn't have prisons.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

And a jail was just basically where they kept you while you were awaiting trial or sentencing or something like that.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

And then you left the jail.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

the idea of going to a place to be held as a punishment in and of itself, that is prisons, that came later on after the American Revolution.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

I think it was the Quakers that came up with the idea of the penitentiary, which is meant to give you quiet time to reflect on what terrible things you've done and hopefully find God and come out of it a better person.

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

And of course, it's not how it

Stuff You Should Know
The Brutal History of Prison Labor

how it worked out.