Between 1788 and 1868 the British penal system transported about 162,000 convicts from Great Britain and Ireland to various penal colonies in Australia. [1] The British Government began transporting convicts overseas to American colonies in the early 18th century.

2019年12月17日 · Australia was originally established as a penal colony. The British established their first exile colony in New South Wales in 1788. Previously, the British were transporting the felons to the American continents, but after they were defeated in the American Revolutionary War, the government had to look elsewhere.

This is a list of operational and former Australian prisons for adult males and females and youth detention centres for juveniles. Prisons listed as "museum" are former prisons that are now open for public inspection and tours.

2019年8月29日 · Among those guilty of lesser crimes were 70-year old Elizabeth Beckford, given seven years for stealing a wheel of cheese, 11-year old James Grace, transported for stealing ribbon, and nine-year old John Hudson, a chimney sweep also given a disproportionately harsh sentence for common larceny.

2012年1月26日 · New South Wales, a state in southeast Australia, was founded by the British as a penal colony in 1788. Over the next 80 years, more than 160,000 convicts were transported to...

2023年1月23日 · Australia has a strange and fascinating history, particularly the part that begins in the late 1700s. In 1788, to be precise, the British founded New South Wales ... and they founded it as a prison colony. Mad Max? That was almost non-fiction.

The story of colonial Sydney began in the early months of 1788, when, under the watchful eyes of Aboriginal people, 11 British tall ships sailed tentatively into the tranquil waters of Port Jackson – the six convict transports, three store ships and two naval escorts of the First Fleet.

Image credit: courtesy National Library of Australia. Phillip first went to sea as a boy in 1753 and served with distinction in British and Portuguese forces in the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Despite initial misgivings of some about his appointment as NSW governor, Phillip was ideally suited to the position: he was accustomed to command ...

This was an historic voyage across oceans to the other side of the world in order to establish the first European settlement, and penal colony, in Australia. The Fleet used two Royal Navy vessels as well as six ships to transport around 1,000 convicts as …

systems is a worthy topic of investigation, given the centrality of the prison to punishment throughout Australia for the last 150 years or so. Until now, these systems have generally been studied separately. Sean O’Toole’s book represents the first nationwide historical examination of correctional systems in Australia. It is the