Convicts were long sent to Australia from the mother country, but transportation to New South Wales practically ceased in 1840, and the last convict vessel to W.
This was a terrible moment; even the boldest amongst the convictschanged colour.
Each chain occupied one; the convicts were seated on a bench running down the centre, back to back, with the chains between them, and at the end stood a soldier with a loaded musket.
Those amongst the convicts who had earned a high criminal reputation were received with loud applause, which they acknowledged with a kind of haughty modesty.
I seemed to hear the hated voices of the convicts drawing nearer and nearer; I fancied that I could perceive their hideous heads appear above the window-sill.
From the conduct of the convicts it would have seemed that this gleam of light had set every brain on fire.
Many of the convicts carried in their hands hats which they had made from the straw supplied to them for bedding.
It was a frightful thing to witness this interchange of compliments between the veritable convicts and the aspirants to that distinction.
The convicts were now ordered to sit down on the muddy pavement; the collars were fitted to their necks; then the blacksmiths, carrying a portable anvil, fixed the rivets with heavy blows of a sledge-hammer.
The rain still continued to fall, and nothing was to be seen but the naked bodies of the convicts glistening in the wet.
All this was done in the midst of a flood of ribaldry from the prisoners, whose voices were occasionally drowned by the loud laughter of the convictsfor whom these preparations were being made.
It is in these dungeons that convicts who have infringed the gaol regulations are confined.
In response to his request, two hundred convicts from Mexico being furnished him, six casemates were finished, of which there are eighteen in all, the remainder having been completed in 1756.
The State Penitentiary is located here, but the convicts are farmed out.
It is to-day a military prison, there usually being here two or three thousand convicts, while both convicts and fortress are guarded by a strong garrison of 3,500 soldiers.
The fleet was immediately removed thither, the convicts landed, and the British flag raised on the banks of Sydney Cove.
When I visited it, two fat convicts were working away slowly at the last fragment.
One little island, that on which the convicts are established, has been altogether so cut up already.
The returns from several prisons show, that the whiteconvicts are remaining nearly the same, or are diminishing, while the colored convicts are increasing.
Few of the other free States were more fortunate, and some of them were even in a worse condition--one-half of the convicts in the penitentiary of New Jersey being colored men.
That in Connecticut the free negroes were 1 to 34; and that one-third of the convicts were free negroes.
That in New York the free negroes were 1 to 35; but that one-fourth of the convicts were free negroes.
State; and yet one-sixth of all the convicts were free negroes.
That in New Jersey the free negroes were 1 to 13; negro convicts one-third.
That in Pennsylvania the free negroes were 1 to 34, and that one-third of the convicts were free negroes.
Nearly one hundred of theconvicts attend this school.
THE HOG-THIEF In the coal mines, as before stated, the convicts are permitted to converse with each other.
I have thought in many cases, convictsreceived sentences too severe, and not at all commensurate with the crime committed.
In these small rooms there are two bunks or beds when two convicts occupy the same cell.
The convictsare marched into the dining-room in divisions, and seated at the table.
The truth is, convicts have related their crimes so often to me that it became tiresome.
Many of the poorconvicts being unable to stand the strain of years and the physical toil, languish and die in the insane ward.
Many of the convicts who could not read or write on entering the prison make considerable progress in these studies.
Loose stones are piled on top of portions of the wall that surrounds the prison, to prevent the convicts from securing a fastening for ladder hooks, should they attempt to escape.
At this writing, both of these convicts are digging coal in the mines.
Were they made of wood or horn, the convicts would soon break off the handles and make trinkets out of them.
Several large three-story buildings are used in furnishing room for the convicts while at labor.
The choir was composed of convicts who could sing, regardless of the crimes for which they were sent to prison.
It is a very interesting sight to witness 1,500 convicts eating at the same time.
Ticket-of-leave men from New South Wales, escaped or paroled convicts from Tasmania, roughs that had been run out of camps by vigilance committees in California, Chinese and Malays swarmed there.
Even with this diminished scale of wages, the situation of the convicts would be far preferable to that of the labouring class in this country.
The convicts spit into their hands, brandished the rods, and began to flog.
They transfer him to a division stationed on the Zacaspian border, and in company with convicts send him to a chief officer who is notorious for his harshness and severity.
Hard by our hotel is a solitary graveyard, where lie the bodies of many convicts who died while confined in a neighbouring stockade in the old transportation days.
In passing along we saw the ruins of many of the miserable old barracks, where the convicts used to live.
This used to be the old coach-road before the railway was opened, and many a coach has been stopped and robbed by gangs of escaped convicts called bushrangers.
But the most illuminating report comes from the medical officer at Parkhurst Convict Prison; these are his words-- Weak-minded convicts and others whose mental state is doubtful continue to be collected here.
The convicts have reclaimed the vast tract of barren moorland, and in its place to-day are broad acres of fertile farm and pasture land.
No prisoner is allowed to be for one moment out of an officer’s sight; that officer starts in the morning with a certain number of convicts in charge: he must bring in the same number on his return to the prison.
Western Africa had indeed been selected for a penal settlement, and a few convictssent there in spite of the deadly character of the climate.
This was when Millbank had become changed in constitution, and from a Penitentiary had been made a depot for all convicts awaiting transportation beyond the seas.
Just at this moment, however, the Government had determined to carry out a certain new classification of all convicts sentenced to transportation.
The effective government of these convicts can only be carried on by a very strict and vigilant attention on the part of the officers.
For fifty years it was a receptacle for male and female convictsundergoing the first period of separate confinement, the preliminary to associated work with greater freedom.
Mr. Nihil says, in 1838, that he is in great hope that by the thorough separation of the prisoners, important advantages in respect to the efficiency of imprisonment and the reformation of the convicts would ensue.
The races commence on the 12th of August, and last three days, during which time the convicts are exempt from all government duties.
The overseers are themselves convicts of good character, and perfect masters of their different trades.
This town is a place where all are sent to that prove refractory, or commit any crimes or misdemeanors in the colony, and is much dreaded by the convicts as a place of punishment.
Abortive attempts had indeed been made by the Marquis de la Roche, but these had resulted only in the marooning of fifty unfortunate convicts on Sable Island.
In any case of disobedience reported by the overseers, the convictswere unmercifully flogged with a rawhide, and Alfonso had been treated to that kind of discipline twice during his period of incarceration.
The convicts were only searched at night, before retiring to their quarters.
Part of the journey was performed by railway, the convicts having a special car, but a considerable distance had to be traversed on foot, and this was painful and toilsome.
A prisoner brought us chairs, and we watched the long line of convicts marching in, the right hand on the shoulder of the one before them, and their striped cap in the left.
Two negro convicts in striped uniforms were lounging on the steps ready to take charge of the carriages, for it was visitor's day.
Bands of strikers seized the mines, and in some places turned loose the convicts and in other places escorted them back to prison.
As a result of this disturbance, during 1892 state troops were permanently stationed in the mining districts, and eventually the convicts were put back at labor in the mines.
Pray let us change the subject," I entreated, "or between convicts and Modocs I shall have the nightmare for a month.
D'Anglade was condemned to join the chaine, the gang of convicts drafted to Toulon, and, having suffered inconceivably on the road, he died of exhaustion at Marseilles.
Seven years dragged themselves along, and there seemed no near prospect of release, "life" convicts being detained as a rule for at least twenty years.
Though for moral and financial reasons the convicts must work, it is evident that on these grounds we cannot accept the cellular system as a pattern of prison organisation.
To this may be added, for convicts less capable of restoration to social life, labour in mines, especially when the mines are State property.
We quite agree with Crofton's proposal to place the children of convicts in industrial schools or houses of correction.
Thus in England convicts are sent to the State Asylum at Broadmoor, whilst minor offenders are sent to a county asylum.
They crowded the convictsin together, regardless of sex.
Two years ago, about two hundred and eighty-three convicts were in the penitentiary of Maine.
Convicts are employed to guard the Government stores when the boat arrives from Ternate.
One of the ex-convicts volunteered to catch him with his hand wrapped up in a cloth, but from the way he went about it I saw he was nervous and would let the thing go, so I would mot allow him to make the attempt.
Other convicts are mentioned in an uncomplimentary manner because they dared to smoke on their road to the gallows.
A hundred years later the misbehaviour was in "impudently calling for sack" and drinking King James's health; after which the convicts affronted the ordinary at the gallows, and refused his assistance.
Next day the officers came to remove five convictsawaiting execution, but found the room so full of stones and rubbish that some hours elapsed before the prisoners could be got out, and Burnworth was still in durance.
The calendars are full of particulars of the manner in which condemned convicts met their fate.
In 1785 two convicts cut a hole in the floor of their cell, and got into the common sewer to make their escape.
Thus they continue the habit of concubinage until the convicts arrive at Sydney Town, and some are now educating five or six children.
Bentham himself had proposed that convicts should remain at auxiliary establishments, in principle resembling the training stations of Maconochie, until they could be prepared for the full enjoyment of liberty.
The convicts selected as constables were like a ruthless band of predatory assailants, seizing their fellow-prisoners under any and every pretence, in order to have 'cases for the police-office!
It was intended to remove the convicts already there; thus to preserve the prisoners transported from the united kingdom from the contaminating example of their predecessors.
At Bermuda, the stimulus of present enjoyment was offered to industry: convicts were allowed 1s.
The character of convicts cannot be safely inferred from their sentence.
The wives and children of convicts shall be allowed rations and slop clothing from the public stores.
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