A convict sentenced in Britain to transportation, but required first to serve eighteen months in Pentonville Prison, London (or another reformatory prison) receiving moral and religious instruction and learning a trade, before being sent to Australia on a conditional pardon.
the British Government continued to send cargoes of Pentonvillains
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No more Pentonvillains ere sent, and Britain was left to find a new conduit for its prison overflow.
The British Government precipitated upon us colonists—batches of Pentonville men, commonly called the Pentonvillains.
The Pentonvillains were unacceptable and their transportation soon ended, frustrated by large hostile demonstrations.
Not all diggers were diggers—there were bushrangers and Pentonvillains only too eager to relieve the diggers of their gains.
They claimed the system "had seriously impaired the mental faculties of several of the Pentonvillains, as they were termed."
The most convincing discovery was made in 1849 by a 22-year-old transported Pentonvillain named Thomas Chapman.
Suffolk, for instance, was a Pentonvillain who was transported in 1847 for fraud.
These exiles were quickly dubbed Pentonvillains—a play on the name of the British prison Pentonville, from which the first exiles had come.
Feeling was running high over the Pentonvillains, and Grey was deservedly criticized.
Port Phillip was deemed suitable as a place of rehabilitation for a class of convicts called exiles or Pentonvillains.