THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF FREMANTLE PRISON

Though the Swan River Colony was set up as a "free of charge settlement"[22] (contrary to the penal colonies over the east coast), with the 1840s demand from customers for affordable labour overcame an early reluctance, and also the colony agreed to just accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the 1st convict ship Scindian on 2 June 1850