which was set up in 1804 as a penal colony for exiled British convicts. Eight Jews were tallied among the original 270 convicts who settled there. The state is also home to Australia’s two ...

Australia was a British penal colony between 1788 and 1868 and over 160,000 convicts were 'transported' here. Learn about these child convicts, why they were transported, how they lived in the colony ...

Some statistics recently published by the Russian Government have raised doubts even in official circles as to the expediency of maintaining Siberia as a penal colony. View Full Article in ...

Australia has a hard-drinking reputation forged from its early days as a British penal colony, where rum was used as a de facto currency alongside English guineas and Indian rupees. While it's far ...

"A dry guillotine, where men are sent to a known death and soon lose at hope" such is the penal colony of Cayenne, according to Colonel C. W. Furlong, speaking at the Union last night on "The Wild ...

An off-road Toyota car carrying Serhhii Yevsiukov, the head of the Olenivka penal colony, and his wife has been blown up in the temporarily occupied city of Donetsk. Source: RIA Novosti ...

Australia was a British penal colony between 1788 and 1868 and over 160,000 convicts were 'transported' here. Learn about these child convicts, why they were transported, how they lived in the colony ...