Convict assignment was the practice used in many penal colonies of assigning convicts to work for private individuals. Contemporary abolitionists characterised...

Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor that was practiced historically in the Southern United States before it was formally abolished during...

also sent convicts to New Caledonia and to Devil's Island in French Guiana. Convicted felon Conviction Convict lease Convict assignment Convicts in Australia...

prison hulks Convict assignment Convict era of Western Australia Convict hulk Convict ships to New South Wales Convict ships to Tasmania Convicts on the West...

the Arts. 25 June 2008. Archived from the original on 5 June 2013. "Convict Assignment – National Library of Australia". National Library of Australia. Archived...

prior to leaving England..." Robbins, W.M. review of Gill's (2004) Convict Assignment at "| Book Review | Labour History, 88 | the History Cooperative"...

is that the Parkhurst apprentices were convicts, and that their apprenticeships constituted convict assignment. Serious lobbying for Western Australia...

details of convict assignment to free settlers. The project relied on the mass-digitisation of over 100,000 images, manual transcription of the convict records...

Convict women in Australia were British prisoners whom the government increasingly sent out during the era of transportation (1787–1868) in order to develop...

English bricklayer, and served in the military until 1802, when he was convicted of theft. He was then transported to Australia, where he helped construct...

altogether in 1840.[citation needed] The lack of manual labourers from the convict assignment system led to an increase demand for foreign labour, which was partly...

David M. Nangle (born December 18, 1960) is an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1999 to 2020. He is a...

The Castle Hill convict rebellion was a convict rebellion in Castle Hill, Sydney, then part of the British colony of New South Wales. Led by veterans...

Traficant was expelled from the House on July 24, 2002, after being convicted of 10 felony counts, including taking bribes, filing false tax returns...

Robert A. Watson (born October 14, 1960) is an American attorney and former Republican member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, representing...

abolished altogether in 1840. The lack of manual labourers from the convict assignment system led to an increase demand for foreign labour, which was partly...

well-connected NSW settler in the period between the termination of the convict assignment system and the onset of the economic depression of the 1840s. It also...

guilty and was convicted in 2008 by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute. He was convicted of only these...

vexatious Replevins of Distresses taken for Rent. The words "provided the assignment be duly stamped before any action be brought thereupon." 36 Geo. 3. c...

Alfred Eduard Frauenfeld (18 May 1898 – 10 May 1977) was an Austrian Nazi leader. An engineer by occupation, he was associated with the pro-German wing...

Indefatigable arrived at Hobart Town in 1812 and was the first vessel to transport convicts to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). There was a break until 1818 when...

the red carpet treatment. Joey reminds Willoughby that he has another assignment that night and there is no one else available. Willoughby then suggests...

forging of Bills of Exchange and Promissory Notes, or any acceptance, Assignment, or Indorsement thereof, or any Acquittance or Receipt for Money or Goods;...

June – Darlinghurst Gaol took in its first prisoners. 1 July – The convict assignment system was abolished in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land and...

based on British bridewells, prisons and workhouses. An estimated 9,000 convict women were in the 13 female factories, in the colonies of NSW and Van Diemen's...

programs featuring Cosby were pulled from syndication. In 2018, Cosby was convicted of aggravated sexual assault against Andrea Constand. He was imprisoned...

Bagatsing Argel Joseph Abet Raz February 3, 2003 (2003-02-03) Tata got convicted after false accusations were made against him and lost his wife and everything...

Thad T. Viers (born March 13, 1978) is a former Republican South Carolina State Representative for District 68. He lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina...

1833, and escaped from his first convict assignment the following year. Placed in Goulburn Jail he met fellow convict Joseph Keys and the pair escaped...

Robert Cannon "Robin" Hayes (born August 14, 1945) is an American politician and businessman from North Carolina. A member of the Republican Party, he...