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A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison". [1] Convicts are often also known as " prisoners " or "inmates" or by the slang term "con", [ 2 ] while a common label for former convicts, especially those recently released from prison, is " ex-con " (" ex-convict ").
Convicts in Sydney, 1793, by Juan Ravenet. Between 1788 and 1868 the British penal system transported about 162,000 convicts from Great Britain and Ireland to various penal colonies in Australia. [1] The British Government began transporting convicts overseas to American colonies in the early 18th century.
The First Fleet convicts are named on stone tablets in the Memorial Garden, Wallabadah, New South Wales. The First Fleet is the name given to the group of eleven ships carrying convicts, the first to do so, that left England in May 1787 and arrived in Australia in January 1788.
David Davies (1812–1874), Welsh poet and rebel, transported to Van Diemen's Land for his role in the Rebecca Riots; John Davies (1813–1872), English journalist and newspaper proprietor, transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1830 for receiving stolen goods
Halprin was convicted under the Texas law of parties. Patrick Murphy: 21 years, 95 days Murphy was the last member of the Texas Seven to be brought to trial, convicted, and sentenced to death. Ronald Lee Haskell: Murdered his ex-wife's sister, her husband and four of their children in Harris County. 5 years, 130 days
Convicts leased to harvest timber in Florida, circa 1915. The "convict lease" system, which involved the use of convict labor for profit, began long before the American Civil War but became popular throughout the South following that war, and continued into the 20th century. Early convict leasing programs, such as that used by the Auburn Prison ...
Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor that was practiced historically in the Southern United States before it was formally abolished during the 20th century. Under this system, private individuals and corporations could lease labor from the state in the form of prisoners, nearly all of whom were Black .
Convicts are prisoners that are incarcerated under the legal system. In the United States, a federal inmate or a felon, is a person convicted of violating federal law, who is then incarcerated at a federal prison that exclusively houses similar criminals. The term most often applies to those convicted of a felony.