The Manual for Courts-Martial (PDF ... You can ask him to fill and then empty sandbags, for example. Convicts who get sent to the brig can get hard labor lumped in with their sentence.

But let’s be clear: There are many kinds of hard manual labor — construction work, for example — that unions have helped to become paths to the middle class. So before we start claiming ...

men sent to labor camps were 40 to 60 years old, drawn largely from the middle class–such as merchants, bankers, doctors, and lawyers–the majority of whom were not fitted for hard, manual ...