CONSIDERATIONS TO KNOW ABOUT FREMANTLE PRISON

Even though the Swan River Colony was founded like a "cost-free settlement"[22] (unlike the penal colonies to the east coast), by the 1840s demand for affordable labour overcame an early reluctance, plus the colony agreed to accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the primary convict ship Scindian on 2 June 1850 was unanticipated, being a