How To Use Road gang In A Sentence
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After a spell on the road gangs, some thirty more were sent for several years to the coal mines at Newcastle, reopened for them.
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The prison warden declared that he was a ‘trusty’ and had served on the road gang without trouble.
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The majority of the county convicts placed in state custody were put to work on prison farms rather than on road gangs.
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Prior to 1927, when county convict road gangs were sometimes used by the SHC, there is no explicit mention of the race of convict laborers.
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The number of convicts used in road gangs in Alabama increased rapidly in the late 1940s as demobilization increased the population of young men.
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This shopkeeper takes me to see a former government official who was tasked with beating tribals used for road gangs in the Karen state, in far eastern Burma.
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Several years later the state attempted to make the road gangs all black again.
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He seems to have worked on road gangs for a time and in a shoe repair factory before rheumatism forced him to quit.
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The road gang's contract was abruptly cancelled as Arthur's Pass became the preferred route through to the coast.
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At the age of 11, he paid the taxes on that farm by working on the county road gang.
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The reappearance of road gangs in Alabama revived painful images of the state and the South as a backward and racist region.
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He ended up as a road ganger under a current road engineer, whom I understand has been in that position with Kildare County Council for the past 28 years.
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Men worked on road gangs, though before long labour shortages led Ottawa to encourage them to move eastwards to Central Canadian manufacturing plants.
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By the 1960s SHD enthusiasm for using convict road gangs was apparently in decline as the system dwindled away to a remnant.
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Despite the proven utility of convict road gangs for construction work, the postwar trend was definitely headed in the direction of maintenance work.