Between 1839 and 1869 the island was used as a convict prison.

Then fourteen miles away the great convict prison of Princetown.

It was designed to hold 208 prisoners and to be Scotland's only convict prison.

The convicted prison population in India is remarkably small.

They would spend the entire time in the convict prison with the hatches closed.

And I'd like to see that convict prison Princetown, isn't it?

There he acted as assistant superintendent of convict prisons.

She became a convict prison ship in 1814, a powder hulk from 1817, and was broken up in 1820.

The European court overturned a British law that banned all convicted prison inmates from voting.

In 1825 the British government decided to set up a new convict prison on Norfolk Island.

He was frequently used as a messenger, which required him to travel regularly between the work camp and the district convict prison in Bunbury.

Peterhead convict prison was opened in 1888, gaining a reputation as one of Scotland's toughest prisons.

Peterhead Convict Prison was built around 1888.

Old convict prison on Devil's Island, the

He also served on the Board of Visitors at Maidstone Convict Prison.

The Hill is filled with historic Victorian terraces and is the site of an historic convict prison block.

Esteban Carpio (born July 30, 1978) is a convicted prison inmate, serving a life sentence for the murder of a policeman in 2005.

In 1842, it was renamed the Queen's Prison, and later became the Southwark Convict Prison.

Until the opening of Peterhead Convict Prison, Scots convicts were transported to England to serve their sentences.

HMP Rochester was founded in 1870 as Borstal Prison, which was a large convict prison.

From 1898 the Prison Commissioners became, as their chairman already was, Directors of Convict Prisons in addition to their responsibilities for the local prisons.

Those who were stationed at Fremantle were housed in the Convict Establishment, the colony's convict prison, and misbehaviour was punished by stints there.

Hon. Sir Walter Crofton, in the Irish Convict Prisons with Crofton, William.

In 1922, he was appointed Commissioner of Prisons and Director of Convict Prisons, a position he held until his retirement in 1946.