Changing a reformed group of prisoners

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A chain gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment . Such punishment might include repairing buildings, building roads, or clearing land. This system existed primarily in the Southern ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context US English) a group of convicts chained together to work outside the confines of a prison.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a gang of convicts chained together

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Citizens have loved his reintroduction of the chain gang and the Army-surplus tents he erected to ease jail overcrowding. ▪ He did a stint on a chain gang , and he became a professional boxer for a while. ▪ Tethered like a chain ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chain \Chain\ (ch[=a]n), n. [F. cha[^i]ne, fr. L. catena. Cf. Catenate .] A series of links or rings, usually of metal, connected, or fitted into one another, used for various purposes, as of support, of restraint, of ornament, of the exertion and transmission ...