What did the convict lease system do?
It helped prisoners blend into society.
It provided cheap labor to businesses.
It helped desegregate the workforce.
It allowed prisoners to earn a salary.

It provided cheap labor to businesses.

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the romans were initially interested in expansion via sicily (which at that time was a cultural melting pot), part of which lay under carthaginian control. at the start of the first punic war (264-241 bc), carthage was the dominant power of the western mediterranean, with an extensive maritime empire