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convicts and were
However, by mid-1837 the South Australian Register was warning of escaped convicts from New South Wales, and tenders for a temporary gaol were sought.
There were other significant populations of convicts from non-English speaking areas of Britain, such as the Scottish Highlands and Wales.
Lord Sydney, as Secretary of State for the Home Office, was the minister in charge of this undertaking, and in September 1786 he appointed Phillip commodore of the fleet which was to transport the convicts and soldiers who were to be the new settlers to Botany Bay.
Most of the 772 convicts ( of whom 732 survived the voyage ) were petty thieves from the London slums.
After some exploration Phillip decided to go on to Port Jackson, and on 26 January the marines and convicts were landed at Sydney Cove, which Phillip named after Lord Sydney.
With limited supplies, the cultivation of food was imperative, but the soils around Sydney were poor, the climate was unfamiliar, and moreover very few of the convicts had any knowledge of agriculture.
Farming tools were scarce and the convicts were unwilling farm labourers.
The whaling industry was established, ships were visiting Sydney to trade, and convicts whose sentences had expired were taking up farming.
The colony was still very short of skilled farmers, craftsmen and tradesmen, and the convicts continued to work as little as possible, even though they were working mainly to grow their own food.
The European population of New South Wales at his departure was 4, 221, of whom 3, 099 were convicts.
Many who were hired to head those departments were so-called " nestlings of Kerensky " (), the former convicts ( political and criminal ) that released by the Kerensky amnesty.
At first, only those freed prisoners who could raise the fare for their return passage to France were able to go home, so French Guiana was haunted after the official closing of the prisons by numerous freed convicts leading an aimless existence in the colony.
While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of extrajudicial punishment.
According to Anne Applebaum, approximately 6000 katorga convicts were serving sentences in 1906 and 28, 600 in 1916.
In 1825, Gosford's population reached 100, of which 50 % were convicts.
Alongside English convicts, they were used to build the Royal Naval Dockyard on Ireland Island.
The Irish first came over in large numbers as convicts ( 50, 000 were transported between 1791 and 1867 ), to be used as free labour ; even larger numbers of free settlers came during the 19th century, partly due to the Donegal Relief Fund.
In spite of many measures taken by the government, convicts still were released without proper treatment.
As a consequence, numerous crimes were committed by convicts that were regarded as treated by TBS-clinics.
That same year, investigation proved convicts still had ample access to illicit drugs and four inmates from the Dr. S. Van Mesdagkliniek were arrested for possession of child pornography.

convicts and put
Once, Liu Bang was put in charge of escorting some convicts to Mount Li to build the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.
He argued to the jury she had used sleeping pills to put her tenants to sleep, then suffocated them, and hired convicts to dig the holes in her yard.
Out of this movement towards generalized punishment, a thousand " mini-theatres " of punishment would have been created wherein the convicts ' bodies would have been put on display in a more ubiquitous, controlled, and effective spectacle.
However, they also suggested that some of the blame should be put on one of the English professionals, who " made use of a grossly insulting remark to the crowd about their being nothing but ' sons of convicts '".
As the drivers get off to put chains on the tires, Homer steals the bus and liberates all the convicts except for Mona, who all sarcastically promise to return to prison.
A proposal that Britain found a colony of banished convicts in the South Sea ( or in Terra Australis ) to enable the mother country to exploit the riches of those regions, had been put forward in 1766 by Colten Henry in Terra Australia Cognita.
Convict discipline was harsh, convicts who would not work or who disobeyed orders were punished by flogging, being put in stricter confinement ( e. g. leg-irons ), or being transported to a stricter penal colony.
A prison farm is a large correctional facility where penal labor convicts are put to economical use in a ' farm ' ( in the wide sense of a productive unit ), usually for manual labour, largely in open air, such as in agriculture, logging, quarrying, etc.
Li Si proposed that all histories in the imperial archives except those written by the Qin historians be burned ; that the Classic of Poetry, the Classic of History, and works by scholars of different schools be handed in to the local authorities for burning ; that anyone discussing these two particular books be executed ; that those using ancient examples to satirize contemporary politics be put to death, along with their families ; that authorities who failed to report cases that came to their attention were equally guilty ; and that those who had not burned the listed books within 30 days of the decree were to be banished to the north as convicts working on building the Great Wall.

convicts and chains
This evidence includes the mayor's obvious origin from the working class ; being an excellent shot ; having informed himself about families from Faverolles, Valjean's birthplace ; the mayor dragging his right foot ( which convicts did because of chains ) etc.
At Toulon the convicts remained ( in chains ) on the galleys, which were moored as hulks in the harbour.

convicts and before
In 1779 Banks, giving evidence before a committee of the House of Commons, had stated that in his opinion the place most eligible for the reception of convicts " was Botany Bay, on the coast of New Holland ".
The view from the Bridge of Sighs was the last view of Venice that convicts saw before their imprisonment.
Floggings of both male and female convicts were public, administered before the whole colony's company, assembled especially for the purpose.
Most controversial of all, on 15 December 2004, a few days before the end of his last term, Iliescu pardoned 47 convicts, including Miron Cozma, the leader of the miners during the early 1990s, who had been sentenced in 1999 to 18 years in prison in conjunction with the 1991 Mineriad.
Up until the American Revolutionary War, some convicts from the United Kingdom were transported to the American Colonies and served out their time as indentured servants before receiving an official pardon.
24 % of convicts at Almadén between 1566 and 1593 died before their release dates, most often because of mercury poisoning.
The reformist attorney general, John Plunkett, sought to apply Enlightenment principles to governance in the colony, pursuing the establishment of equality before the law, by extending jury rights to emancipists, then legal protections to convicts, assigned servants and Aborigines and legal equality between Anglicans, Catholics, Presbyterians and later Methodists.
Both his parents were descended from convicts: his mother was the daughter of two convicts transported from Ireland, and his father was the son of Edwards Wills, who was originally sentenced to death for highway robbery before having his sentence commuted to transportation.
The cat-o '- nine-tails was also used on adult convicts in prisons ; a 1951 memorandum ( possibly confirming earlier practice ) ordered all UK male prisons to use only cats o ' nine tails ( and birches ) from a national stock at Wandsworth prison, where they were to be ' thoroughly ' tested before being supplied in triplicate to a prison whenever a flogging was pending for use as prison discipline.
The convicts were ready to begin taking banks on their own, only to discover that Dillinger had been arrested in Dayton, Ohio four days before the escape, and was being detained in the Allen County jail in Lima.
Strong tidal currents resulted in the deaths of many convicts before they even reached the settlement due to ships foundering in the narrow rocky channel.
The reformist attorney general, John Plunkett, sought to apply Enlightenment principles to governance in the colony, pursuing the establishment of equality before the law, first by extending jury rights to emancipists, then by extendeding legal protections to convicts, assigned servants and Aborigines.
Childs was recalled but, before he left, a group of convicts revolted in July 1846, murdering four officials.
The reformist attorney general, John Plunkett, sought to apply Enlightenment principles to governance in the colony, pursuing the establishment of equality before the law, first by extending jury rights to emancipists, then by extending legal protections to convicts, assigned servants and Aborigines.

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