hard labor

hard labor
A special condition of imprisonment for crime. 21 Am J2d Crim L § 615. Describing the labor as hard, in a sentence imposing imprisonment at hard labor, does not signify that it shall be of unusual severity. It means no more than that it is compulsory, and continuous during the term of imprisonment. Brown v State, 74 Ala 478, 483.

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