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Victoria Prisons map The former HM Prison Geelong, closed in 1991. HM Prison Loddon in Castlemaine. The Old Melbourne Gaol in Russell Street, Melbourne. Façade of the former HM Prison Pentridge, located in Coburg. Adult Prisons and correctional facilities in Victoria are managed by Corrections Victoria.
Australian Convict Sites is a World Heritage property consisting of 11 remnant penal sites originally built within the British Empire during the 18th and 19th centuries on fertile Australian coastal strips at Sydney, Tasmania, Norfolk Island, and Fremantle; now representing "...the best surviving examples of large-scale convict transportation and the colonial expansion of European powers ...
The prison was built using convict labour in the 1850s. Although a convict-supported settlement was established in Western Australia from 1826 to 1831, direct transportation of convicts did not begin until 1850. It continued until 1868. During that period, 9,668 convicts were transported on 43 convict ships.
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The Port Arthur convict settlement was established in September 1830 as a timber-getting camp, producing sawn logs for government projects. From 1833 until 1877, it was the destination for those deemed the most hardened of transported convicts ― so-called "secondary offenders" ― who had persistently re-offended during their time in Australia.
The following is a list of Australian penal colonies that existed from the establishment of European presence in the 1780s up until the nineteenth century. [ citation needed ] The term colony had referred to settlements and larger land areas at that time.
Includes operational and former Australian prisons and immigration detention centres. Australia portal See also: Crime in Australia , List of Australian penal colonies , and List of Australians in international prisons
James Walsh ( 1833–1871), English artist, transported to Western Australia for theft and forgery Thomas Watling (1762–c. 1814), Scottish artist, transported to New South Wales for forgery William Westwood (c. 1830–1846), English bushranger and leader of the Cooking Pot Uprising , transported to New South Wales for stealing a coat