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A Free Voyage Text  Before the 19th century, imprisonment was not seen as a punishment in itself. For lesser offences punishments included the stocks or pillory, whipping, branding and fines. For more serious offences the sentence was death, which was often commuted to transportation to North America and later to Australia.
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