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单词 Prison labour
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Prison labour

英语百科

Penal labour

(重定向自Prison labour)
Female convicts chained together by their necks for work on a road. Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika c.1890-1927.
Convict labourers in Australia in the early 20th century.
Prisoners picking oakum at Coldbath Fields Prison in London (ca. 1864).
Convicts leased to harvest timber in Florida, circa 1915

Penal labour is a generic term for various kinds of unfree labour which prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour. The work may be light or hard, depending on the context. Forms of sentence involving penal labour have included involuntary servitude, penal servitude and imprisonment with hard labour. The term may refer to several related scenarios: labour as a form of punishment, the prison system used as a means to secure labour, and labour as providing occupation for convicts. These scenarios can be applied to those imprisoned for political, religious, war, or other reasons as well as to criminal convicts.

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