From 1833, following the suspension of transportation…

From 1833, following the suspension of transportation to New South Wales, all transported convicts have sent to Van Diemen's Land, where British Arctic explorer Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin begins service as governor in 1836.

Male convicts serve their sentences as assigned labor to free settlers or in gangs assigned to public works.

Only the most difficult convicts are sent to the Tasman Peninsula prison known as Port Arthur, mostly re-offenders.

Female convicts are assigned as servants in free settler households or sent to a female factory (women's workhouse prison), of which there are five in Van Diemen's Land.