Today, about 20% of Australians are descendants of convicts, including plenty of prominent citizens.
In fact, the National Registry of Exonerations tracked 958 former convicts exonerated in the United States.
Executions are comparatively rare in India where hundreds of convicts are awaiting the death penalty.
The jury is still out, however, and if it convicts, it should impose the right punishment.
Currently, 369 convicts are on death row, and a further 471 have appealed against their sentences.
Perhaps lower than the odds of a heavily armed band of escaped convicts invading your home.
Twelve of the convicts were given the death penalty and 20 others were sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Also under pressure: Justice Secretary Serafin Cuevas, for including a priest killer among convicts granted presidential pardons.
Today to a degree unprecedented in America the system relies heavily on those sheriffs to house and feed convicts.
Chicago and New Jersey have plenty of publicly elected convicts in their pasts, but these are big places.
On Sunday, prosecutors said Mr Budimir and four other officials had taken bribes to arrange pardons for convicts.
In Mexico, though, escaped convicts are not penalised further - they are simply put back behind bars.
And allowing tax convicts to buy their freedom by paying the tax they evaded is very bad precedent.
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There's the economy, which has made employers so desperate that some are hiring convicts to work in prison.
Kicking out capable troops while replacing them with ex-convicts is not a recipe for good order and discipline.
For example, about a hundred convicts from a minimum-security facility fanned out among orchards in the Wenatchee Valley.
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So, if the judge convicts Frieman it seems said judgment would contradict the legal definition of a corporation.
So, in Virginia, where there are 216, 600 ex-convicts, only 404 had their vote restored in 1996 and 1997.
His ancestors included a superintendent of convicts at the penal colony there as well as a mayor of Sydney.
Of course, this argument presupposes that convicts who were apolitical would remain so.
The other convicts came to inspection drunk (they ran to the nearest cafee).
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Almost half of all convicts are now serving sentences of ten years or more, compared with under 2% in 1995.
Former prisoner Stephen Richards says he knew convicts who had escaped from their minimum-security prison in Kansas in the 1980s.
Sydney, Australia's oldest city, founded by British convicts in the late 18th century, has always prized its more colourful criminals.
Hippodromes, pagan temples and foreign advisers abounded, as did amphitheaters where beasts were unleashed at convicts "a barefaced impiety, " wrote Josephus.
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The only way to motivate convicts with no prospect of early release was to feed well those who worked hard.
It has been a custom in China for the family to pay for the bullet that executes convicts on death row.
Dutt, the most high-profile among the convicts, was originally charged with five offences, including criminal conspiracy and possession of illegal weapons.
Some believe that the upturn in the crime rate is directly linked to the number of unreformed ex-convicts on America's streets.
The first anniversary of Operation Safeguard, special powers to use police cells to house convicts, comes up before that in October.
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