Foreign inmates, for whom prison work had been voluntary, found themselves compelled to participate in menial labour for long hours.

He took a correspondence course in photography, determined to avoid the menial labour into which the system funnelled young black men.

He has not prepared, and as a result ends up in a kind of institution, in which he must perform menial labour each day.

She encouraged them to turn down poorly paid menial labour in the prison yard.

Desperately poor, she found occasional work as a seamstress and made ends meet with whatever menial labour could be found.