CONSIDERATIONS TO KNOW ABOUT FREMANTLE PRISON

When the Swan River Colony was recognized for a "free settlement"[22] (as opposed to the penal colonies about the east Coastline), via the 1840s demand for reasonable labour overcame an early reluctance, plus the colony agreed to just accept some convicts from Britain. The arrival of the main convict ship Scindian on 2 June 1850 was unforeseen, bei