 Then the judge with many expressions of sympathy for the prisoner, and many compliments in reference to his intellectual attainments, sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for fourteen years.Kickham spent time from 1866 until his release in the Invalid Prison at Woking.Kickham was released under a partial amnesty of March 1869, because of ill-health, and upon his release he was made Chairman of the Supreme Council of the I.R.B.