'penal labor' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the practice of forcing individuals to perform hard and dangerous labor as a form of punishment for a crime. Example: The government implemented a policy of using penal labor for convicted felons as a means of reducing prison overcrowding.
It was constructed between 1930 and 1933, largely by penal labour.
The Gulag's penal system, forced labor and executions become indisputable, and what becomes known as the Old Revolutionary Left, or specifically the advocates of Leninist- and Stalinist-Marxism, fall into disrepute, and ultimately despair, as the failure and betrayal of the premiere state-implemented Marxist utopia becomes certain.
Lawyers, however, note that under California's penal code and tough labor laws, an employer's failure to provide a worker required training and equipment when one has the resources to do so constitutes a willful violation, and a fatal outcome makes any such failure felonious.
ISLAND OF EXILES (Penguin, paper, $14) finds Akitada undercover on Sado Island, known for the penal colony that supplies slave labor for the local silver mines.
This founding bacchanal was a brief hurrah before order was restored next day and the convicts were put to work as virtual slave labor, carving the penal colony's roads, farms and government buildings from the wild terrain.
To this day, no one knows exactly how many labored here in penal servitude.
The mother of Kenneth Bae, an American Christian missionary serving a 15-year term of hard labor in North Korea's penal system, visited him for 90 minutes in a "very emotional reunion" on Friday at a Pyongyang hospital where he has been convalescing since the summer because of poor health and severe weight loss, Mr. Bae's sister reported on Friday.
A mystery letter from China drew international news media coverage and widespread attention to the country's opaque system of "re-education through labor," a collection of penal colonies where petty criminals, religious offenders and critics of the government can be given up to four-year sentences by the police without trial.
The letter drew international news media coverage and widespread attention to China's opaque system of "re-education through labor," a collection of penal colonies where petty criminals, religious offenders and critics of the government can be given up to four-year sentences by the police without trial.
That night, the music video, appeared on YouTube "Punk Prayer - Mother of God, Chase Putin Away!" Their arrest for 'hooliganism' and subsequent incarceration, followed by harsh sentencing, of two years hard labor in a gulag, penal colony, sparking an international outrage, against oppression and cry for freedom of speech, and First Amendment constitutionality in this country.
