[Brother in Arms]

I had a game once were a cantonment had a earthen work wall ( not actual facines and gabbions but hulks of cars and the like covered in earth and turf) that was topped by a dry stacked stone wall.

The citizens of the Canton would punish those convicted of crimes to mend the wall. In some lesser cases ( like a character getting drunk and fighting) they were sentenced to this hard labor for a period of time (several weeks)and then they reintegrated into society they were given slight rations but unlimited water. However serious criminals like thieves,rapist, murderers were sentencing more harshly. Like when a group of marauders tried to infiltrate the wall and failed. Foolishly they surrendered and were caught by the citizen of the canton. These unfortunate souls were sentenced to build the wall till death. So they were forced to do hard labor staking stones until they dropped dead from starvation. They were given plenty of water to drink but never given food. Several tried to injure themselves so they couldn't stack stones and if that happened or they got too weak from starvation they were beaten to death by the cantons security force and there body over the wall.

in other instances the wall was used when refugees came from the outside and wanted to become a citizen of the canton. They were sentenced to mend the wall for a period of time and earned there food and water by stacking stones, as well as extracting the stones from fields. After a period of this labor they earned there citizen ship. If for some reason you couldn't work on the wall you may be sentenced to work in another form of labor. One instance I remember in particular were a soldier had a consensual encounter with a young woman, but she got pregnant and her parents did not approve. He was sentenced to mend the wall and then was forced to leave the canton. But she was sentenced to work in a hemp field until the day she gave birth.

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