Convict

"WARNING: HITCHHIKERS MAY BE ESCAPED CONVICTS."

- The Superintendent

A convict, also called a prisoner, is a term for an individual found guilty of a crime by a law authority and serving a sentence of imprisonment. Individuals can be imprisoned for various reasons ranging from minor violations like theft to major crimes such as piracy, terrorism, and treason. Convicts are convicted and incarcerated by their own peers unlike prisoners of war, who are combatants imprisoned by enemies forces following an armed conflict. Both human and Covenant often send their convicted criminals on prison ships to distant labor and correctional facilities, known as penal colonies.

Human
During the Human-Covenant War, UNSC humans could be punished with life imprisonment or execution if they violated the Cole Protocol. Human convicts would have prison barcodes tattooed unto their arms and would also be implanted with a tracking chip.

Covenant
In some cases, Sangheili or Jiralhanae guards disposed of criminals by feeding them to Kig-Yar convicts, who would eat the victim alive.

Prior to the Great Schism in 2552, the Prophet of Truth ordered that all imprisoned and criminal Jiralhanae were to be released, rehabilitated, and pardoned.

Although not seemingly convicted of any crimes, the Unmutuals, asocial Yanmee'e who suffered from personality disorders, were sentenced to work to death in penal colonies operated by Sangheili and Kig-Yar guards.

List of appearances

 * Halo 2
 * Halo Wars: Genesis
 * Halo Wars
 * Halo 3: ODST
 * Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe
 * Blunt Instruments
 * The Mona Lisa
 * Halo 2 Anniversary