Sunday, February 22, 2015

Freemantle - Prison Tour

It is important to remember that Australia was originally a penal colony.  Thousands of men and women—hardcore criminals, as well as people guilty of something as trivial as stealing a loaf of bread—were sent there.  The system was known as "forced migration." 

The prisoners themselves built this massive prison!  Photographs cannot do the enormity of the place justice.

  
















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