Penal transportation

Penal transportation (or simply transportation) was the relocation of convicted criminals, or other persons regarded as undesirable, to a distant place, often a colony, for a specified term; later, specifically established penal colonies became their destination. While the prisoners may have been released once the sentences were served, they generally did not have the resources to return home. Quotes Our sailing ships like common-sewers we use,And through our distant colonies diffuseThe draught of dungeons, and the stench of stews;Whom, when their home-bred honesty is lost,We disembogue on some far Indian coast,Thieves, pandars, palliards, sins of every sort;Those are the manufactures we export. John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther (1687), Part 2 See also Papillon (1973 film) External links Category:History Category:Crime