Group of prisoners chained together as a form of punishment
For other uses, see Chain gang (disambiguation).
Chain gang street sweepers, Washington, D. C. 1909Female convicts in Dar es Salaam chained together by their necks, c. 1890–1927
A chain gang or road gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment. Such punishment might include repairing buildings, building roads, or clearing land.[1] The system was notably used in the convict era of Australia and in the Southern United States. By 1955 it had largely been phased out in the U.S., with Georgia among the last states to abandon the practice.[2] North Carolina continued to use chain gangs into the 1970s.[3][4] Chain gangs were reintroduced by a few states during the "get tough on crime" 1990s: In 1995, Alabama was the first state to revive them. The experiment ended after about one year in all states except Arizona,[5] where in Maricopa County inmates can still volunteer for a chain gang to earn credit toward a high school diploma or avoid disciplinary lockdowns for rule infractions.[6]
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