| Following his arrest, he is tried, convicted, and sentenced to one year on a prison chain gang in a distant parish. |
| Then we were given some prisoner's uniforms, very similar to the uniforms a prison chain gang used to wear here. |
| After 19 years on the chain gang, Jean Valjean finds that the ticket-of-leave he must display condemns him to be an outcast. |
| Of greater significance was the parole system, introduced in 1908, the same year as convict leasing was abolished and the chain gang introduced. |
| In fact, I feel like I've been off of work for about a year, and that year was spent working on a chain gang or holding my breath underwater. |
| George Clooney and some cheeky chappies escape from a '30s chain gang and sing Deep South ballads while having misadventure after misadventure. |
