5 EASY FACTS ABOUT FREMANTLE PRISON DESCRIBED

Although the Swan River Colony was recognized as being a "free of charge settlement"[22] (compared with the penal colonies on the east coast), via the 1840s demand for affordable labour overcame an early reluctance, as well as the colony agreed to accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the initial convict ship Scindian on 2 June 1850 was