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Penal labour

Penal labour or prison labour is a term for various kinds of forced labour that 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…

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Penal labour

Nodes147
Edges146
Triples29
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.013605
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related to United States · 15
Penal labour → Amendment, American Civil War, At, During Jim Crow, Penal, Progressive Era, Reformers, Since, South, The, Thirteenth Amendment, Unconvicted, United States, US, US Constitution
related to Netherlands · 7
Penal labour → Dutch, Hard, Netherlands, Reclassering Nederland, Strafrecht, The, Wetboek

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labour prisoners prison penal work act servitude forced hard soviet inmates section imprisonment camps prisons labor punishment criminal many abolished

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Penal labourrelated to NetherlandsHard0.60section
Penal labourrelated to NetherlandsNetherlands0.60section
Penal labourrelated to NetherlandsDutch0.60section
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Penal labourrelated to NetherlandsWetboek0.60section

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