work detail
Prisoners' task group
A work detail is a group of people assigned to perform a specific task, especially manual labor.
The term comes from military usage, where soldiers are detailed—that is, assigned—to particular duties: a cleanup detail, a burial detail.
In prison contexts, work details are groups of inmates performing labor: He was assigned to the road work detail.
- assignmentAllocated work or duty
- taskWork to be done
- crewWorking team aboard
- chain gangShackled convict work crew
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
hard labor · manual labor · squad · road crew · fatigue · KP duty · duty · chore · prison · military · cleanup · patrol · specifics · particulars · fine print · minutiae · precision · close attention
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- prisonsprison, inmates, cells, prisons, prisoner
- jailinmate, inmates, prisoner, cells, cell block
- Japanese Internmentinternment camps, internment camp, Japanese internment, Executive Order 9066, internees
- military prisonsmilitary prison, military brig, brig, stockade, Leavenworth
- prison disciplinesolitary confinement, the hole, loss of privileges, lockdown, punishment cell
assigned labor vs. free time
work detailleisure time
Unscheduled waking hours
free time · recreation · rest period · downtime · R&R
work, detail, works, worked, working, worker, workers, workable, workman