Prisons Over Seas / Deportation and Colonization; British and American Prisons of To-day

by Arthur Griffiths

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Introduction	[5]
I.	The First Fleet	[13]
II.	The Growth of New South Wales	[41]
III.	Convict Life	[67]
IV.	A Convict Community	[94]
V.	The Probation System	[116]
VI.	Convict Ships	[138]
VII.	The Exiles of Crime	[167]
VIII.	The Collapse of Deportation	[207]
IX.	Gibraltar	[230]
X.	The British System of Penal Servitude	[248]
XI.	French Penal Colonies	[277]
XII.	Penal Methods in the United States	[308]
XIII.	British Prisons of To-day	[327]

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List of Illustrations

Armor Worn by Ned Kelly, and Manacles Worn by Prisoners in Tasmania	[Frontispiece]
Convict Ship "Success"	Page [162]
Ruined Prison Church, Tasmania	" [222]

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PRISONS OVER SEAS

CHAPTER I THE FIRST FLEET

First idea of riddance of bad characters—James I removes certain dissolute persons—Sale of criminals as indentured servants to American Colonies and West Indies—Prices and profits—American Revolution closes this outlet—Discoveries by Captain Cook leads to the adoption of Botany Bay as the future receptacle—First fleet sails March, 1787—Settlement made at Port Jackson, christened Sydney—Landing of convicts—Early labours—Famine and drought—Efforts to make community self-supporting—Assisted emigration a failure—General demoralisation of society—Arrival of convict ships and growth of numbers—Unsatisfactory condition of Colony.