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He had also been instrumental in recommending that the legislature approve as superintendent of Welfare Island one Dr. Marjorie Sayers. She was the ideal woman for the job, he argued. And with hardly a dissenting vote, out of gratitude for the money he had saved the state, the legislature approved this singular woman as head of a prison which in reality was being ingeniously and secretly altered into a kind of training school for future bondservants, slaves, and potential prostitutes intended for the many houses of the crime syndicate throughout the country.
For Judge Austin W. Black was venial and corrupt, but he was also shrewd in business affairs. As state's attorney, he had had occasion to prosecute a number of minor hoodlums of the syndicate, and he had come into contact with the higher echelon. When he had been appointed to the bench, he remembered those contacts and had sought out those powerful men and made a deal with them.
An attractive girl upon whom the syndicate had designs could be apprehended in this county, brought before Judge Black and sentenced to ninety days as a vagrant, in this correctional institution. When the ninety days were up, she would go out of there not a free woman but a subjugated hireling of the syndicate, if she were not bought on the auction block by wealthy amateurs who paid a fortune to the corrupt Judge for the privilege of witnessing her debut into as depraved and complex a carnal servitude as ever flourished even in the days of the robber barons and the pre-Civil War era of black bondage.
He had also been instrumental in recommending that the legislature approve as superintendent of Welfare Island one Dr. Marjorie Sayers. She was the ideal woman for the job, he argued. And with hardly a dissenting vote, out of gratitude for the money he had saved the state, the legislature approved this singular woman as head of a prison which in reality was being ingeniously and secretly altered into a kind of training school for future bondservants, slaves, and potential prostitutes intended for the many houses of the crime syndicate throughout the country.
For Judge Austin W. Black was venial and corrupt, but he was also shrewd in business affairs. As state's attorney, he had had occasion to prosecute a number of minor hoodlums of the syndicate, and he had come into contact with the higher echelon. When he had been appointed to the bench, he remembered those contacts and had sought out those powerful men and made a deal with them.
An attractive girl upon whom the syndicate had designs could be apprehended in this county, brought before Judge Black and sentenced to ninety days as a vagrant, in this correctional institution. When the ninety days were up, she would go out of there not a free woman but a subjugated hireling of the syndicate, if she were not bought on the auction block by wealthy amateurs who paid a fortune to the corrupt Judge for the privilege of witnessing her debut into as depraved and complex a carnal servitude as ever flourished even in the days of the robber barons and the pre-Civil War era of black bondage.