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chain gang

(US) a group of convicted prisoners chained together, usually while doing hard labour.

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The second period, from 1908 through the 1930s and beyond, is characterized by the chain gang. The chain gang replicated key features of convict leasing, in that labor, rather than isolation, served as the substance of punishment, and brutality was the hegemonic mechanism of social control.

State violence against black women

Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary.

Childs, Dennis. Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary

He hooked up the link again, only allowing The Weather Channel and the Disney Channel - The Weather Channel only so the chain gangs knew how hot it would be the next day!

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This exceptionally well-researched account looks at chain gangs and the state prison system of Florida from about 1910 until 1960.

Hard labor and hard time; Florida's "Sunshine Prison" and chain gangs

Fair enough, the chain gang mentality should not be taken as far as it is in the United States.

Letter: Chain gang

They begin their story not on an Alabama freight train, but on the slave ships from Africa, in the antebellum cotton fields and the postbellum chain gangs, in the factories and prisons, in the courthouses and the streets where the battle for rights is a battle for survival.

Remembering Scottsboro: during the 1930s, two unknown artists created a series of linoleum cuts telling the story of slavery and racism in the American South. Seldom was protest art so linked to political action as it was in the campaign to free the "Scottsboro Boys."

Sheriff Arpaio has also reintroduced chain gangs to his county, including America's first all-female chain gang.

TV: Man of the cloth; Frame 2: Toughest Sheriff in America Sunday 15 June 8.05pm Network 2 SHERIFF PUTTING HIS CONS UNDER CANVAS

Given the reputation of chain gangs, support from wardens and gang 'bosses' are perhaps the most surprising.

Managing mercy: African Americans, parole and paternalism in the Georgia prison system 1919-1945

Committee Against Torture, American police and prison guards have a record of discriminatory prisoner abuse, female prisoners are often raped by prison personnel, and public chain gangs are still in use.

Torture Bearers

In its May 2000 report, the Committee highlighted areas of concern, including the "excessively harsh regime" of supermaximum security prisons, sexual abuse of female prisoners by guards, prisoner chain gangs, and torture and ill-treatment by police and prison guards--much of it racially motivated.

U.S.A. Called on to End Torture

In the 1940s, chain gangs were outlawed as an appropriate correctional practice.

Alabama Prison Chain Gangs: Reverting to Archaic Punishment to Reduce Crime and Discipline Offenders

MORE than a third of the public would welcome the introduction of US-style chain gangs to Britain, a survey shows.