If we are found we shall be sent to a convict prison for conspiracy.We shall be lucky if we are not tried for murder and hanged by the neck until we are dead.…Cited from Blind Love, by Wilkie Collins
They would find me guilty and sentence me to a convict prison.I saw Dartmoor prison on my wedding journey with Felicita, Heaven help me!…Cited from Cobwebs and Cables, by Hesba Stretton
This is really what is being done in our convict prisons.Take an extreme case, and keep out of sight altogether the characters and dispositions of our criminals, and imagine a hundred of England's most steady, honest, and industrious working men placed in our convict establishments for a few years, and what would be the result?…Cited from Six Years in the Prisons of England, by A Merchant - Anonymous
"I suppose that the fellow who was shot was one of the men who escaped with him from the convict prison."Cited from Colonel Thorndyke's Secret, by G. A. Henty
It is quite sufficient, in prisons for the segregation of criminals, to provide for isolation by night, which requires buildings far more simple and less costly than those of the cellular prisons.Work in the open air is the only useful basis of organisation for convict prisons.…Cited from Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri
Not long since I visited a convict prison and made acquaintance with some of the criminals.There were some even more dreadful criminals than this one we have been speaking of -- men who have murdered a dozen of their fellow- creatures, and feel no remorse whatever.…Cited from The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A few months previous to my discharge from hospital, I gave in my name in the usual manner as being desirous to speak with the visiting director.I may here explain that there are four directors of convict prisons in England.…Cited from Six Years in the Prisons of England, by A Merchant - Anonymous
But if the hardened and incorrigible criminals were really punished in any proportion to the others the system would have a kind of consistent iniquity about it which it does not possess.My left-hand companion was an old agricultural labourer, one of a large class to whom a convict prison is no punishment.He had been brought up to work, and although an old man, he could work far more than a city thief, and yet not work hard.…Cited from Six Years in the Prisons of England, by A Merchant - Anonymous
From Hey Tor the coach goes on to Buckland Beacon, whence a wide view is obtained, including the shining roofs of Princetown right away in the distance.Princetown, with its convict prison, is considered by the people of the moor to be its most important town.Holne, which is included in some of the coach drives from Bovey Tracey, contains the birthplace of Charles Kingsley.…Cited from What to See in England, by Gordon Home
It was designed to hold 208 prisoners and to be Scotland's only convict prison.Occupancy averaged at around 350 however, until peaking at 455 in 1911.…
The whole time he spoke he never met Chris's glance once.The chaplain of a convict prison would have turned from him in disgust.…Cited from The Crimson Blind, by Fred M. White
Accordingly in the morning I called at several cottages, in one of which King George the Third used to attend a prayer-meeting with the country people.In the afternoon I went to the convict prison at Portland.It was sad to look upon the prisoners clanking about in their chains, many of whom were employed in making a road to the sea.…Cited from From Death into Life, by William Haslam
Here are two moorland farmhouses, High Tor and Foulmire.Then fourteen miles away the great convict prison of Princetown.Between and around these scattered points extends the desolate, lifeless moor.…Cited from The Hound of the Baskervilles by A. Conan Doyle 25
And now, she turned out to be the wife of a forger, sentenced to hard labour in a convict prison, for twelve years.For twelve years -- nearly three must have elapsed already.…Cited from A Tale of a Lonely Parish, by F. Marion Crawford
They wrote that arrangements would also be made, if found desirable, to form a branch line to Government establishments at Princetown.The Government establishments were of course Dartmoor Prison, then recently re-opened as a convict prison.The proposed branch was not proceeded with, and the SD&TR opened its line on 22 June 1859.…
Under them is a body of Prison Inspectors, and last of all there comes the actual working staff of the Local Prisons, consisting of warders, schoolmasters, clerks, governors, chaplains, and doctors.Wherein does the Local Prison system as worked by this staff differ from the system in operation in convict prisons?Perhaps the difference will be best expressed by saying that work in association is the centre of the convict system, while work in solitude is the central idea of the Local Prison system.…Cited from Crime and Its Causes, by William Douglas Morrison
The Hill is an inner city, residential suburb of Newcastle, in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, located immediately south of Newcastle's central business district.The Hill is filled with historic Victorian terraces and is the site of an historic convict prison block.…
The saluting from the various ships sent a roar through the thick air.The large harbour with its different islands -- one of them containing a convict prison, another a military depot -- looked less cheerful than it might have done.The captains of the war-steamers came on board to pay their respects; so did the Lord-Lieutenant, Lord Bandon, and the commanders of the forces at Cork.…Cited from Queen Victoria, Vol. 2, by Sarah Tytler
For fifteen years I remained in the convict prisons.It might have been fifteen centuries, an eternity.…Cited from In the Roaring Fifties, by Edward Dyson
The soldiers from the barracks happened to be marching down to do target practice on the shore, and were passing the convict prison when the firing broke out.They were at once halted, and ordered to load, and as the convicts, with exultant shouts, poured through the gate they saw a long line of soldiers, with leveled muskets, facing them.…Cited from Colonel Thorndyke's Secret, by G. A. Henty
