Australian penal system

By deus2
  • discovery of tasmania

    discovery of tasmania

    Abel tasman discovers tasmania
  • colony in tasmania

    colony in tasmania

    The first colony settled in 1825

  • Cascades female factory

    the opening of the cascades female factory and the transferring of the female convicts from hobart to the cascades fremale factory

  • the last of the 100 female convicts transferred to cascades female factory

  • Establishment of port Arthur as a penal settlement

    port Arthur established as a penal settlement instead of a lumber mill. 150 convicts sent there to begin

  • the establishment of point puer

    Point puer was established purely as an all boys "institution of reformation" to re-educate the boys and give a proper trade which they could practice when their transportation sentence was finished

  • Launceston female factory opens

    the launceston female factory is opened, presumedly to replace the george town one

  • one prisoners escape was quite ingeneous

    on prisoner tried escaping by ripping the skin of a dead kangaroo,
    and hopping past the guards , one guard decided to have a kangaroo for dinner, he pulled his gun out to shoot the "kangaroo" and the prisoner shouted "I'm not a kangaroo, I'm a prisoner." needless to say, he was caught

  • tasmania's first library

    tasmania gets its first public library

  • End of convict transportation

    The end of convict transportation to australia