Which of the Following Statements About the Lease System Is

Which of the following statements about the lease system is true?

A) Prisoners received pay for their labors.
B) Prisoners signed agreements to work for a set amount of time that was generally shorter than the jail time they had received.
C) The lease system was primarily employed in densely settled areas of the United States.
D) The death rate of prisoners under this system was very low.
E) Because businesses rented the labor of these prisoners, they were never considered slaves.