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| | Army Lawyer: Making little rocks out of big rocks: implementing sentences to hard labor without confinement: breakin' ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Unfortunately, there is a widely-held misconception in the Army that hard labor, a form of punishment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), (3) is "dead." (4) By definition, labor is a physical or mental exertion. |
 | | During the Civil War, "sentences simply of 'hard labor,' or of 'hard labor at the public works,' or of certain particular labor or labor on particular works--such as fortifications, bridges, roads, andc. |
 | | This nonexistent restraint on the duration of hard labor remains a critical distinction between hard labor and extra duty and, like its historical counterpart of hard labor at confinement, is essential to making hard labor without confinement an effective contemporary punishment. |
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