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

Notorious individuals exiled--Murderous assaults on the Queen--Bank frauds--Burgess and the Bank of England--Robbery of Rogers' Bank--Fraud and embezzlement--Walter Watts--Rober...

Penal exile in favour with other nations--Systems of France, Italy, Spain and Portugal--Earliest French ventures--Guiana a fiasco--High sounding names--Renewed attempt--Settleme...

Conveyance of convicts beyond seas--Early abuses--Neglect and starvation on board--Large mortality--Question of command--Weak discipline maintained--Constant dread of outbreak--...

A substitute for transportation--Task entrusted to Colonel Jebb--Initiates Public Works' Prisons in England--Plans to assist in the construction of great breakwater at Portland-...

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 pr...

Various conditions described--Arrival and treatment of newcomers--Hyde Park barracks for males--Parramatta factory for females--Behaviour of assignees to their convict servants-...

Large amount of convict labour available for employment--Free settlers too few to utilise it--Applied chiefly to public works--Premature erection of public edifices--Convicts gi...

Lamentable state of Van Diemen's Land--Colony on the brink of ruin--Latest convict schemes a complete failure--Glut of labour and deadlock in employment--Terrible state of Norfo...

Reform in system of secondary punishment--Convicts still to be sent to the antipodes but after passing through various stages of improvement--Van Diemen's Land, or Tasmania, cho...

Convicts in public hands--How employed--Road parties--Chain gangs and the penal settlements--Life and labour in each--Classes of convicts--The emancipists--Many acquire great we...

Steady progress toward improved methods--Legislation to secure uniformity and proper principles of management--First effort to bring all local jurisdiction into line--Decision t...

No common system--Each state takes care of prisoners in its own way--Prisons under the control of the general government--Lack of system not altogether without advantage--The "P...

Over-sea prisons continued till late date at Bermuda and Gibraltar--Major Griffiths' personal connection with Gibraltar--Called to supreme control by threatened outbreak--His as...