Penal transportation
In law and in history, particularly with reference to the history of Australia, the word transportation can refer to deporting[?] convicted criminals to a penal colony.A sentence of transportation could apply for "life" or for a specific period of time. The penal system expected convicts to work, either in institutions[?] or sub-contracted to individual entrepreneurs in penal servitude[?].
A "transport" who had served part of his "time" might gain a ticket of leave[?] permitting some prescribed freedoms. But exile remained an important component of the punishment.
Transportation punished both major and petty crimes in Britain from the 17th century until well into the 19th century. The British colonies in North America received transported British criminals in the 17th and 18th centuries; Australia served as a standard destination of transportation for a period starting in 1788.
He lay till evening
passed, after the vehement emotion of the morning,
his own misery was hardly more to him than a dull
thing that had forgotten to be a soul. In truth,
thing that mattered to any sentient being was to
came from altered conditions or from the deadening
Perhaps he would succeed in escaping;
should never see the Padre again, and it was all
Gadfly looked up with heavy-eyed indifference.
"What time is it?"
"Six o'clock. Your supper, sir."
He looked with disgust at the stale, foul-smelling,
He was feeling bodily ill as well as depressed; and
hurriedly. "Take a bit.html">bit.html">bit of bread.html">bread, anyway; it'll do you good."
The man spoke with a curious earnestness of
and putting it down again. All the conspirator
there was something hidden in the bread.
"You can leave it; I'll eat a bit by and by," he
that the sergeant on the stairs could hear every
he had satisfied himself that no one was watching
carefully crumbled it away. In the middle was
It was wrapped in a bit of paper.html">paper.html">paper, on which a few
carefully and carried it to what little light there
space, and on such thin paper, that it was very
"The door is unlocked, and there is no moon.
by the passage between two and three. We are
He crushed the paper feverishly in his hand.
only to file the window bars; how lucky it was
filing them. How many bars were.
On
wordlookup.net
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
It uses material from the wikipedia.
|
|