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<p>A <b>chain gang</b> or <b>road gang</b> is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of <a href="page.php?w=penal_labor">punishment</a>. Such punishment might include repairing buildings, building roads, or clearing land. The system was notably used in the <a href="page.php?w=Convicts_in_Australia">convict era</a> of <a href="page.php?w=Australia">Australia</a> and in the <a href="page.php?w=Southern_United_States">Southern United States</a>. By 1955, it had largely been phased out in the</p><p>
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