His accommodation was a rent-free chamber at Aldgate, under which royal processions, drovers, traders, carts, rebels and convicts passed in an unending stream.
After the convicts passed a compulsory period of good behavior, the re-education program began in earnest.
Wandering along Lebuh Pitt from the Esplanade near Fort Cornwallis, you pass the convict-built Anglican church of St George's, the Kuan Yin temple, dedicated to a deity worshipped by Buddhists and Confucians alike, and the Sri Mariamman temple with its lurid facade of Hindu gods, all within half a mile.
Last year, for example, nine states passed laws preventing convicted domestic abusers from having guns.
In 2001, Nebraska passed a statute allowing convicted felons to seek DNA testing, and he filed a motion to request it.
Under an Italian law, passed in 2000, athletes convicted for using a banned substance can be sentenced to three months to two years in jail.
They are stuck here in large part because Suffolk County, like many jurisdictions, has in recent years passed laws that bar convicted sex offenders from living near schools, day care centers and other places with children.
The current sampling law, passed last year, requires people convicted of the most common and violent felonies to submit to DNA profiling, and covers about 65percentt of all felony offenders.
Mr. Maltese has been an aggressive champion in the Senate of tougher laws on sexual predators, including one passed this year that requires convicted sex offenders to register all their Internet screen names with state authorities.
When asked if they had anything to say before sentence was passed, several of the convicted men made a closing speech.
