Chain gang - Wikipedia
WEBTwo ankle shackles attached to each other by a short length of chain are known as a hobble or as leg irons. These could be chained to a much longer chain with several other prisoners, creating a work crew known as a chain gang .
Legcuffs - Wikipedia
WEBFrequently used alternative terms are leg cuffs, (leg/ankle) shackles, footcuffs, fetters[2] or leg irons. The term "fetter" shares a root with the word "foot". Shackles are typically used on prisoners and slaves. Leg shackles also are used for chain gangs to keep them together. [3]
Chain Gangs - Encyclopedia.com
WEBHalf a century after their disappearance, convicts working in shackles once again became a sight on southern roads. The practice was reinitiated in 1995, when four hundred convicts, predominately black, were marshaled into a chain gang, at the Limestone Correctional Facility in Alabama.
1930: The fugitive from a chain gang - capitalcentury.com
WEBIn 1930, Burns slipped loose from the shackles that bound him to backbreaking labor on a Georgia chain gang. After fleeing to New Jersey, he got his story told as a classic movie: "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang." Then he made a dramatic bid to clear his record at the State House in Trenton.
Judy Bainbridge: Chain gangs faced grueling, unrelenting work
WEBJul 15, 2014 · For nearly a century, chain gangs -- shackled convicts, generally black, shoveling dirt under the watchful eye of a white armed guard -- were as southern as grits and moonshine, but a lot more...
Shackled! Life on a chain gang - starsinsider.com
WEBAug 19, 2024 · The practice reached its cruel zenith in the southern United States during the 1920s and 1930s, when it was common to see chain gangs on roadsides and railway tracks wielding heavy pickaxes and mallets cracking rock often under a baking hot sun.
An Artist on How He Survived the Chain Gang | The New Yorker
WEBMay 3, 2021 · Because the white prisoners were a threat to run, the guards would shackle them to each other. The white boys really turned the prison camp into a chain gang. For some reason, I felt I could...
The New South and the New Slavery - USG
WEBIn 1938, Governor E. D. Rivers banned the term “chain gang” in preference for the more palatable “public works camp” and removed the shackles and chains that bound prisoners together. Yet road gangs continued to operate until Governor Ellis Arnall finally abolished the chain gang in 1943.
Link to the Past : The return of chain gangs is not about hard labor ...
WEBJan 8, 1996 · The 400 convicts who will form the day’s chain gangs are being led in squads of 40 from their mass barracks to the recreation yard, through checkout at the gate and on toward the perimeter road...
WEBDec 10, 2020 · Prior to May 21, 1996, an Alabama chain gang prisoner had a shackle around each ankle, with eight feet of chain connecting each ankle to another prisoner's ankle. John Leland & Vern E. Smith, Back on the Chain Gang, NEWSWEEK, May 15, 1995, at 58, 58; Mark Schone, Alabama Bound, SPIN, Oct. 1995, at 76, 78.