Look at the development of chain gangs in the 1870s US and you'll see it was an explicit mechanism for restoring slave labor to the southern economy.

Specifically look up Parchman and Angola which are hardly the only instances, merely the most famous ones.

It's been that way for a long, long time, but it's only useful for cheap products (the labor is inconsistent for obvious reasons) and is stuff that may eventually be automated.

Thankfully there's a real limit for abuse. It should be a declining problem.