penal servitude in English

noun
1
imprisonment with hard labor.
The new rules will remove outdated references to penal servitude and imprisonment with hard labour.

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1. He underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft.

2. Criminals could at one time be sentenced to penal servitude .

3. Justice Day sentenced them both to 20 years' penal servitude.

4. General Haig was ordered to commute all death sentences to ten years’ penal servitude.

5. Even before his arrival on August 27, 1826 in Irkutsk, the term of penal servitude was reduced to 20 years.

6. 1861, United Kingdom, Offences Against the Person Act 1861: Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable crime of Buggery […] shall be liable at the discretion of the court to be kept in penal servitude for life or for any term not less than ten years.· (Britain) Any sexual act deemed against nature, such as bestiality or