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The convict cage wagon was used to transport prisoners leased to corporations for road work, timber harvesting, and turpentining, and they were often chained together. In Florida, the leasing program was abolished in 1923 after the death of Martin Talbert, an inmate killed in a turpentine camp as a result of harsh physical punishment. One such cage was used to transport convicts from camp to work on the road between DeLand and Daytona.
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