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Headword Date Article Type
Fry, Elizabeth 1780 - 1845 P
Britain agrees to stop convict transportation to Van Diemen's Land 1852 T
First British penal settlement is founded at Botany Bay 1788 T
Gaols Act 1823 T Note
House of Commons votes to abolish death penalty 1964 T
Judge Jeffreys conducts the 'Bloody Assizes' 1685 T Note
Millbank Penitentiary opens 1821 - 1890 T Note
Newgate Prison 1120 - 1902 T
Penitentiary Act; Panopticon 1779 T
Pentonville Prison founded 1842 T
Robert Peel allows employment of transported convicts in colonies 1823 T Note
Robert Peel reforms criminal law 1827 T Note
Society for the Suppression of Vice established 1802 T Note
Strangeways Prison riots 1990 T
The Act of Grace releases Jacobite rebels from British prisons 1717 T Note
Thirty-eight prisoners escape from Maze Prison 1983 T
Titus Oates is flogged through the streets of London 1685 T Note
Transportation of convicted criminals 1597 T Note
Transportation of convicts to Australia begins 1787 T
Transportation of serious convicts to Van Diemen's Land begins 1803 T

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