Which early court case allowed for prisons to keep inmates in a slave-like “state of penal servitude”?

a. Ruffin v. Commonwealth
b. Ex parte Hull
c. Cooper v. Pate
d. Bell v. Wolfish


a. Ruffin v. Commonwealth

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