Marcus took advantage of his police and Political connections to go to the auction bloc to get a look at what was available and if allowed to make a an non-competetive bid.<br/>+++<br/>Earlier he had  studied the police reports of the growth of a secondary market in Indentured Servants. Under the act the State had exclsive right to handle the contracts meaning in essence that that when a owner wanted to 'sell' a contract it had to be done through the government.<br/>His study convinced him that the growth was probably un stoppable and that legislation would legalize it. It was after all within free market principles.<br/>He had not been assigned any cases yet but decided that a good approach would be to dismiss cases on p[rovision of a large contribution to the party.<br/>+++<br/>He had spent in fact most of his day working issuing writs ordering the incompetent be placed in custody for thier own good.<br/>The problem was many of those people who were poor were poor becuase either they were incompetent or lazy. Either way they needed to put to work.<br/>and it was for their own good after all.<br/>The act was fairly simple. A special board used basic criteria to decide who was eligable for the program. Then a brief investigation was authorized and an writ of  was issued.<br/>+++<br/>Marcus was puzzled about the lowering of sex crimes but suspected that private subservience of such people exerted morte supervision and control then public confinement.<br/>It was a triumph of market principles.<br/><br/>