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Penal is related to the word penalty; penal labor can be part of a person's punishment, if they have been found guilty of a crime. If a sentence reads "ten years hard labor" this means that the criminal in question is going to be imprisoned for ten years and will be required to do hard, penal labor, while imprisoned. In the US, prisoners have been used for a variety of types of labor. Breaking rocks into gravel was an old traditional type of penal labor, having the virtue of being hard, and yet not requiring any skill, so that every prisoner, however incompetent, should be able to do it. Making license plates is also a traditional form of penal labor. But more recently, prisoners have been used for a wide variety of functions, including the delivery of customer service by telephone (to people who do not know that they are talking to prisoners). That too is penal labor.
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