Penal labour is a generic term for various kinds of forced labour which prisoners are required to perform, typically manual labour. The work may be light or hard, depending on the context. Forms of sentence involving penal labour have included involuntary servitude, penal servitude, and imprisonment with hard labour.

What is simple and rigorous imprisonment?

A person sentenced to simple imprisonment will have to do simple works in the prison, whereas, a person facing rigorous imprisonment has to peform hard labour during his/her term. ... Hence in the absence of any such definition, life convicts cannot be subjected to rigorous imprisonment, he contended.

What do u mean by rigorous imprisonment?

Rigorous imprisonment means confinement of the offender in a manner that increases the hardship of the jail term based upon the nature of the offence committed by him by subjecting the offender to special arrangements in the jail.