FACTS ABOUT FREMANTLE PRISON REVEALED

When the Swan River Colony was founded as being a "free settlement"[22] (not like the penal colonies within the east Coastline), by the 1840s need for reasonable labour overcame an early reluctance, as well as the colony agreed to accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the first convict ship Scindian on two June 1850 was surprising, as a