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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.



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