Convicts Staff and prisoners of Fremantle Prison

convicts introduced western australia 3 main purposes: inexpensive labour, additional labour, , injection of british government spending local economy. during initial years of transportation, convicts young, rural background, , of character, having committed minor offences – potential future colonists, after sentence had been served. 1860s majority older, more serious offenders urban areas, , final group of convicts, arriving in january 1868 on hougoumont, included sixty-two fenians, political prisoners considered difficult , dangerous .