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A sentence of transportation could apply for "life" or for a specific period of time. The penal system expected convicts to work, either in institutions or sub-contracted to individual entrepreneurs in penal servitude .

This notice on a bridge in Dorset warns that damage to the bridge can be punished by transportation.

A "transport" who had served part of his "time" might gain a ticket of leave permitting some prescribed freedoms. This could lead to some convicts developing successful careers in the region. But exile remained an important component of the punishment. At one time, returning from transportation was a hanging offence.

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