Convict
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A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison". Convicts are often also known as "prisoners" or "inmates" or by the slang term "con
Convicts at Botany Bay, New South Wales, 1789
Convicts and guards on the road to Siberia, 1845
Prisoner
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A prisoner, also known as an inmate or detainee, is a person who is deprived of liberty against their will. This can be by confinement or captivity in a prison or physical restraint. The term usually
Convict
…A convict is "a person found guilty of a crime and sentenced by a court" or "a person serving a sentence in prison". Convicts are often also known as "prisoners" or "inmates" or by the slang term "con", while a common label for former convicts, especially those recently released from prison, is "ex-con…
Gustave Doré's image of the exercise yard at Newgate Prison (1872)
Finnish serial killer Johan Adamsson, also known as "Kerpeikkari", in the 1849 lithography by Johan Knutson while he was imprisoned
To Visit the Imprisoned by Flemish artist Cornelis de Wael c. 1640
A scene in Newgate Prison, London