Talk:Penal labour

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message: The PI page says that "PI may stand for: Prison labor". But if that is the case why PI and not PL???!
I found on the List of Prison Break characters page that it may mean "Prison Industry".
Anyway, if someone has an explaination for "PI", I think that it should be somewhere at the beginning of the page! It may be obvious to you but it is not at all for me... (english is not my mother tongue) ZeroJanvier 00:52, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  PI = Prison labour ? 

message: Why is it not "labor"? Is it because the British Empire invaded all these countries and made penal labour of them? Skinnyweed 18:19, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have gone through again and made the spellings consistent --Mgp28 (talk) 12:11, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of lab*r 

message: We shall use the proper AMERICAN spelling for this site, thank you. This is America, and if you don't like it, you can GET OUT!!!!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.195.16.211 (talk) 18:49, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Internet is America??!!  <confused>  NuclearWinner (talk) 23:43, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, his PC is in America... "How did you all make into my PC?! Show me your visa!" :) 213.199.30.165 (talk) 17:53, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Englishmen 

message: The article mentions that prisoners' labour can be used to the government's economic gain. It doesn't say why it has fallen out of use. Anyone know? Leushenko (talk) 20:34, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is it out of use? 

message: Sounds like it was written by someone who is definitely not in favor of prison labor.
Can we get a viewpoint from more positive sources? 207.237.41.202 (talk) 05:05, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article sounds a little biased. 

message: Employs about 17% of US prisoners and a growing numbers of other private corps plus CCA are putting prison labor to use at about 40% of the typical wage.  The article reads as if this is an archaic phenomena but it is growing.  97.85.163.245 (talk) 06:42, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
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message: May I express discomfort at the claim that the slang word "screw" for a prison officer derives from an adjustment screw on the crank machine? To be sure it is claimed in the Inveraray article cited: "The warder could make the task harder by tightening a screw, hence the slang word for prison warder". I beg to suggest that this is an urban myth endlessly repeated and taken a life of its own. (Yes, I know that as long as you cite a reference it's legitimate to put it in Wikipedia even if you don't believe it.)
The crank machine had paddles rotating in a sand box and the prisoner had to turn the crank against the resistance of the sand. There is no screw adjustment available in this situation. I have never seen a contemporary engraving showing any screw or any other adjustment on the apparatus.
Fwiw I think it is more likely that the crank machine itself was regarded as a "screw", just as a ships' propeller gets that name ... in other words a screw doesn't have to be a small device for fastening two pieces of metal.
I would be delighted if someone could shed authoritative light on this, one way or the other ... Afterbrunel (talk) 17:02, 28 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Screw as origin of slang for prison officer 

message: "Unfree Labor" used in the lede seems like a euphemism for "forced labor" (which is where that link redirects). Is there any good reason to use that rather than the more common term? It's not like "forced labor" is inaccurate in any way I can see. Hppavilion1 (talk) 10:57, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Unfree Labor" 

message: For the section on the Soviet Union, it mentions Gulags without first describing what they are. I would like to add some more background information on the gulags. I would also like to mention the kulaks that were commonly imprisoned in these gulags. My changes would be approximately 200 words and would use Anne Applebaum's Gulag: A History. Applebaum has a degree in history from Yale and has won a Pulitzer prize. She also has a masters degree in economics. If anyone has any comments on these changes, please let me know on this Talk Page or on my Talk Page. Chapmanstudent00 (talk) 19:43, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
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