License Ticket Research Paper

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Good behavior and licenses "license ticket"
Good behavior meant that convicts rarely serve their full term and could qualify for a cash license, certificate of release, conditional forgiveness or even a full pardon. This allowed convicts to earn a living and live independently. However, for the period of their sentence they were still subjected to surveillance and the ticket can be removed for misconduct. This sanction was found to work better to achieve good behavior and the threat of flogging.
The first ticket of leave licenses developed to save money, but then became a central element of the prison system that has served as a model for subsequent probation systems for prisoners. Governor King (1800-1804) marks first license issued to convicts
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Those sentenced term normally sentenced to seven years you may qualify for a ticket to leave after four years, while those serving 14 years could expect to serve between six and eight years. "Sentenced to life" could qualify for their "ticket" after about 10 or 12 years. Those who failed to qualify for a pardon are entitled to a certificate of freedom of the completion of its mandate.
The colony of Van Diemen's Land was established in its own right in 1825 and officially became known as Tasmania in 1856. In the 50 years 1803-1853 about 75,000 prisoners were transported to Tasmania. In 1835, there were more than 800 prisoners working in chain gangs in the infamous Port Arthur penal station, which operated between 1830 and 1877.
Western Australia
Western Australia was established in 1827 and proclaimed a British penal colony in 1849 with the first detainees arrived in 1850 Rottnest Island, off the coast of Perth, became a penal colony of the colony in 1838 and was used by the local colonial
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Victory
In 1851 Victoria (Port Phillip District) separated from New South Wales. In addition to the first attempts at colonization, the only prisoners sent directly to Victoria from Britain were about 1,750 prisoners known as "exiles". They arrived between 1844 and 1849. He was also known as the "Pentonvillians' because most of them came from Pentonville Prison trial in England. Queensland
In 1859 Queensland separated from New South Wales. In 1824 the penal colony at Redcliffe was established by Lieutenant John Oxley. Known as the Convention of Moreton Bay, which then joined the now called Brisbane site. The main inhabitants of 'Brisbane City, "as he was known, was convicted of criminal Moreton Bay station until its closure in 1839. About 2280 prisoners were sent to the colony of fifteen years.
The abolition of transport
Transport to the New South Wales colony was officially abolished the October 1, 1850, and 1853 in order to abolish transportation to Van Diemen's Land was formally