Convicts were still a common sight for years later.

Convicts housed in hulks were used to build the Royal Naval Dockyard there, and during the Second Boer War, Boer prisoners-of-war were sent to the archipelago and imprisoned on one of the smaller islands.

Convicts were dissuaded from escaping by the poisonous snakes in the interior of the island and the sharks patrolling the 30 km to the mainland.

Convicts were treated harshly, and worked hard.

Convicts were transported to Australia in 1787, arriving in Botany Bay, then Sydney Cove, in January 1788.

Convicts from Florence were a cheap source of labor and the state used them to build roads through the mountains between Bisbee and Tombstone in 1913.

Convicts, slaves, and troops from Cuba were used as construction labor.

Convicts for crimes covered by this law were not subject to amnesty.

Convicts were employed in the shipbuilding industry.

Convicts were assigned to nearby farms and properties, and also worked on public buildings, roads and bridges.

Convicts were often given pardons prior to or on completion of their sentences and were allocated parcels of land to farm.

Convicts were usually sentenced to seven or fourteen years ' penal servitude, or " for the term of their natural lives ".

Convicts were assigned to work gangs to build roads, buildings, and the like.

Convicts sent to Western Australia were sentenced to terms of 6, 7, 10, 14 and 15 years and some reports suggest that their literacy rate was around 75 % as opposed to 50 % for those sent to NSW and Tasmania.

In the knockout rounds, Gotham defeated perennial rival Washington Renegades ( 10-0 ), but lost a hard-fought semifinal match to eventual world champion Sydney Convicts ( 10-35 ; notably, the Knights were the only team to score a try against the Convicts in the tournament ).

Convicts in Western Australia were never assigned, with the debatable exception of the Parkhurst apprentices.

In 1872 the office of Comptroller General of Convicts was abolished, and Wakeford was transferred to the Colonial Office.

Convicts completing their sentences or earning their ticket-of-leave often promptly left Van Diemen's Land.

* In the novel The Convicts by Iain Lawrence, young Tom Tin is sent to Van Diemen's Land on charges of murder

Having served well on a number of convict ships to Van Diemen's Land, Hampton was appointed Comptroller-General of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land in May 1846.

Hampton had previously been Comptroller General of Convicts in Van Diemen's Land, and assumed far more direct control of Western Australia's convict establishment than had his predecessors.

Convicts escape from jails and prisons ; the local retirement homes are filled with panicked people ; and a run on the bank results in the bank closing and local merchants selling out of nearly all supplies.

and 2nd largest in Tamil Nadu after puzhal central prison, Convicts sentenced to imprisonment are confined in the jail from various districts of the Presidency as well as from Burma.

My Six Convicts is an American 1952 comedy-drama film adapted from the autobiographical book written by Donald Powell Wilson.

Convicts transported from England's overflowing prison system made a major contribution to Tasmania's settlement and development.

From 1852 to 1856 Anderson was a member of the first Victorian Legislative Council, where he supported the Convicts Prevention Act, which was designed to prevent the influx of convicts from Tasmania into Victoria ; and when the measure, having been disallowed by the Imperial authorities, was again adopted by the Council in the ensuing session ; and opposed the influx of Chinese gold miners.

It was seen in the episode " Convicts from Dimension X " of the 1987 TMNT cartoon.

Sri Temasek was designed by John Frederick Adolphus McNair ( 1829 – 1910 ), a civil engineer who was appointed Executive Engineer and Superintendent of Convicts of the Straits Settlements, and built largely using Indian convict labour from Bencoolen.

Many Australians felt a sense of shame about the existence of British Convicts in what is now Australia, and many did not even attempt to investigate their families ' origins, for fear that they could be descended from criminals.

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson KCB ( 19 April 1821 – 8 December 1896 ) was an officer in the British Army who was Comptroller-General of Convicts in Western Australia from 1850 to 1863, Home Office Surveyor-General of Prisons from 1863 to 1869, and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1869 to 1886.

* Barrington R ( n. d .) Convicts and Bushrangers, View Productions, Sydney

He arrived in June 1790 on the Second Fleet convict ship Neptune and not only served in this role, but was made Superintendent of Convicts on Norfolk Island, in Parramatta and Sydney.

* Sydney Convicts ( A & B )

The cup final was between reigning champions San Francisco Fog A and the Sydney Convicts A, who won the game 16-10.

Sydney Convicts B beat the World Barbarians to win the Bingham Plate.

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The 2008 documentary film Walk Like a Man focuses on the Sydney Convicts and San Francisco Fog as they prepare and compete for this Bingham Cup.

The Sydney Convicts ( Team A ) took the cup back with them to Australia after winning the Cup competition for the second time in a row, this time defeating the Kings Cross Steelers ( Team A ) in the Cup final.

The World Barbarians team, made up largely of the Nashville Grizzlies, beat the Sydney Convicts ( team B ) in the Plate final.

The Cup returned to US soil as the 2006 tourney hosts, the Gotham Knights pulled an upset win over the reigning champions, the Sydney Convicts.

It was announced on September 29, 2010, that the Manchester Village Spartans Rugby Club, England, would host the 2012 Bingham Cup, beating the Sydney Convicts ' bid by 6 votes.

* Sydney Convicts official site