Gerontogeous ergastulum in 3D: documentation, dramatization, distribution

Fenestella

Banned
gerontogeous: of the Old World
ergastulum: compound where slave laborers are confined and punished

I've heard tales from the ergastula all over the Old World which have the potential to make The Gulag Archipelago and Schindler's List pale in comparison, e.g., the absolute horror and abject misery in the ergastula of the Crimean Khanate and Barbary Coast.

There haven't been authors, filmmakers, and distributors as mighty as Solzhenitsyn, Spielberg, and Universal tackling those hellish ergastula, yet.

Do you aspire to make the aforementioned masterpieces pale in comparison?

Which ergastula would you choose to tackle? How would you dramatize them?
 
Do you aspire to make the aforementioned masterpieces pale in comparison?

In the novel Spartacus there is a description of a mine in Libya.

Which ergastula would you choose to tackle? How would you dramatize them?

Not exactly a work camp but I would love to read something about the criminalization of LGBT people in the 19th and 20th century.

Otherwise, maybe a novel about an innocent young man being condemned to work in the Roman mines (damnatio ad metallum) and fighting for his acquittal? Thus you could describe the inhuman conditions in these mines with a positive perspective for the hero of the story (at the end a good emperor decides to release him).
 
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