When this stopped, the prisoners were then transported all the way to Australia. Penal transportation was ... the harshest forms of punishment in the colony. “Convicts loathed it.

NSW ends private management of Parklea Prison, citing safety issues, understaffing, and profit-driven neglect.

Australia was a British penal colony between 1788 and 1868 and over 160,000 convicts were 'transported' here. Learn about these child convicts, why they were transported, how they lived in the colony ...