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Broadsheet describing for prisoners the conditions of their liberty and existence in either the whole of Van Diemen's Land or on the Tasman Peninsula in particular depending on their conduct in Pentonville Prison prior to transportation; "prisoners who have behaved ill" will be employed without wages in the peninsula penal colony and their families cannot follow them; prisoners who have behaved well will be granted full liberty, the opportunities to gain employment with full possession of their wages and to bring over their families.
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Pentonville Prison of North London was built in 1842 according to Jeremy Bentham's "panopticon" model and served as a work house for prisoners awaiting transportation to Tasmania. Transportation was slowly curtailed and ceased around 1886.