The prison once got a guard dog that prevented the prisoners from stopping, leading to the prison having to order more rocks.One lifer took to making them into small cubes.While not shackled together (they get a ball and chain instead), breaking rocks is the most common activity for criminals.
Once there he find himself working on a chain gang alongside three villains he had sent there, "Bull" Barton, Dr.
In Kid Colt, Outlaw #118, Kid Colt is duped into being arrested and sent to state prison. Jonah Hex: Jonah ends up working on a chain gang when he is sent undercover into the state penitentiary. Batman foes the Trigger Twins were working on a chain gang when they were sprung by woman claiming to be their sister in Robin (1993) Annual #6. A Call-and-Response Song is often used to pass the time. In more fantastic films, this will be a feature of the Slave Galley. See Also: Chained Heat which, while usually occurring between only two characters-and not necessarily prisoners-bound to each other, can be expanded here to apply to even larger groups, if need be. "Community service" often involves similar tasks, but leave the people doing it looking indistinguishable from volunteers or paid public employees.Ī Sub-Trope of Prisoner's Work. Nowadays, chain gangs mostly just exist in period pieces in media that involve prisoners in the early half of the 20th Century. African-Americans and out-of-staters were particularly vulnerable to being sentenced to hard labor for the state or local government.Ĭhain gang work remained commonplace in Southern US states up until the mid-1950s but has since become everything but a Dead Horse Trope only one county in Arizona (Maricopa) and one in Florida (Wakulla) still make use of chain gangs, and the inmates aren't shackled together anymore. The 13th Amendment to the Constitution banned involuntary servitude "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted", leaving a legal loophole by which unpaid labor could still be exploited. The punishment became popular in the United States soon after the Civil War (1865) when slavery was abolished. Working on the Chain Gang is Older Than Radio and is very much Truth in Television, although inmates are no longer chained together. This necessitates the escapees' efforts to find a means to break their shackles as well as cooperate with one another until they find a way to remove them - something that they usually learn "the hard way" after chained individuals try to run in opposite directions, possibly even running around different ends of a lamppost or similar structure which will immediately stop them dead in their tracks. Occasionally characters on a chain gang may attempt to make an escape while shackled together. 
A group of prisoners are shackled together, usually at the ankles, to perform acts of grueling physical labor, such as digging ditches, building or cleaning roads, and chipping stone, as a form of punishment.
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