Relocation of convicted criminals to a distant place
This article is about relocation as a punishment. For prisoner relocation for other reasons, see Prisoner transport.
For other uses, see Transportation (disambiguation).
Women in Plymouth, England, parting from their lovers who are about to be transported to Botany Bay, 1792
Penal transportation was the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony, for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination. While the prisoners may have been released once the sentences were served, they generally did not have the resources to return home.
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Penaltransportation was the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony, for a specified...
Large-scale implementations of penal labour include labour camps, prison farms, penal colonies, penal military units, penaltransportation, or aboard prison ships...
prison farm. With the passage of the Transportation Act 1717, the British government initiated the penaltransportation of indentured servants to Britain's...
convicts already resided in the area that became known as Victoria. Penaltransportation to Australia peaked in the 1830s and dropped off significantly in...
suppressed by legal and military force, which included execution and penaltransportation of accused and convicted Luddites. Over time, the term has been used...
death row, including Mary Wade, had their sentences commuted to penaltransportation to Australia. Wade spent 93 days in the Newgate Prison before being...
With the widely used alternative of penaltransportation halted in the 1770s, the immediate need for additional penal accommodations emerged. Given the...
Convicted of the kidnap of a wealthy heiress in Cork, he was subject to penaltransportation to New South Wales in 1802 where he built Vaucluse House near Sydney...
Kempe. From the Early Modern period, the Atlantic slave trade and penaltransportation used the sea to transport people against their will from one continent...
a penal colony of the British Empire. Although it received small numbers of juvenile offenders from 1842, it was not formally constituted as a penal colony...
class suppression. As convictions for capital crimes increased, penaltransportation with indentured servitude became a more common punishment. In 1785...
major embarkation port for men, women and children who were deported to penal colonies such as Australia. The Scots Church has since 1973 housed the Cobh...
before being convicted in R v Loveless and Others and sentenced to penaltransportation to Australia. They were pardoned in 1836 after mass protests by sympathisers...
as well as freemen to the colony would follow. By the end of the penaltransportation in 1868, approximately 165,000 people had entered Australia as convicts...
had variously been sentenced to death, which was then commuted to penaltransportation for 7 years, 14 years, or the term of their natural life. Four companies...
V27861) – praises penaltransportation lists classes of people the author feels should be transported Rouse, Andrew C. “THE TRANSPORTATION BALLAD: A SONG...
or provide alternatives to, death sentences; the alternative of penaltransportation to "partes abroade" was used since at least 1617. It is now used...
South Wales with the departure of the First Fleet in the process of penaltransportation to Australia. Britain was a leading belligerent in the French Revolutionary...
"wilful and corrupt perjury" in 1830. He was sentenced to seven years penaltransportation, six months in prison at Newgate and one hour in the pillory in the...
Convict lease Convict assignment Convicts in Australia Older prisoners Penaltransportation Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language, p. 311 (2d...
struggled in its first decades, and in 1850, with the advent of penaltransportation to the colony, Fremantle became Australia's primary destination for...
a time Hobart served as the Southern Ocean's main whaling port. Penaltransportation ended in the 1850s, after which the city experienced periods of growth...
people who had been defined as "undesirable" by the English state. Penaltransportation of Irish people was at its height during the 17th century, during...
1793 one was made for William Skirving after he was sentenced to penaltransportation. Cesar Picton, d. 1836, bequeathing 16 rings Sir Anthony Browne Col...
successive leaders to penaltransportation, and in 1793 Dundee Unitarian minister Thomas Fysshe Palmer was also given 7 years transportation for helping to prepare...
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