Editing Communards (section)

== Sentences ==
There were three sentences given out to the {{lang|fr|déportés}}: simple deportation, deportation to a fortified place, and deportation with [[forced labor]]. A simple deportation sentence was given to about two-thirds of the Communards. These people were sent to live in small villages on the [[Isle of Pines (New Caledonia)|Isle of Pines]]. Those sentenced to deportation to a fortified place were sent to the [[Ducos Peninsula|Ducos peninsula]]. About 300 Communards were sentenced to deportation with forced labor; these were the people convicted of crimes such as [[arson]] in addition to their political crimes. They were sent to be with the criminal convicts on the main island ('Grande Terre'). Some prisoners’ sentences were changed by the local penal administrators, and some were changed by the French government after [[petition]]s for leniency.{{sfn|Bullard|2000|p=124}}