Years ago when we sent prisoners to Australia why did we choose such a nice country to send them to?
2007-03-06 16:40:29 · 9 answers · asked by SR13 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I'm guessing to work on their tans!!
2007-03-06 16:46:16 · answer #1 · answered by SantaBud 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was the only country with plenty of space and hard work for them to do.
Also there was little chance of an uprising at least for a few years.
This is really a ridiculous debate by today's standards as most of them were sent here for seven years for such petty crimes.
What is the British going to do about their overcrowded prisons now? They are already using shipping for accommodation but have nowhere to send them.
2007-03-07 00:52:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Put simply we needed to populate Australia quickly with our own people. The cheapest way of doing so was to offer a convict the option of either being hanged or being transported.
Not only were convicts transported to Australia, they were also transported to the American Colonies, that is, until c1776.
The result of all of this transportation of convicts is that English as a language is widespread in the world and the Anglo Saxon race is dominant in that world. We're all over the place and have our fingers in all the pies.
2007-03-07 03:02:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Australia was not nice then it was sunny desolate and not having modern day hygiene and rugs hot climates usually meant disease and possibly death for westerners and the criminals were used for very hard labour.It also meant they would never see their families again
2007-03-07 01:15:23 · answer #4 · answered by frankturk50 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Penal colonies in Australia were not nice.
2007-03-07 00:44:24 · answer #5 · answered by nobsallowed 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because the penal system looked after the prisoners in those days similar to today
2007-03-07 02:25:22 · answer #6 · answered by cassidy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who pays the expenses of keeping them there. Tax payer!
2007-03-07 03:15:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry sr13 about sending them we apologise unfortunately they all came back , and now they are all in parliament
2007-03-07 01:33:32 · answer #8 · answered by alan j UK 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they hadn't started letting the anti-social Brits into the Costa del Sol yet.
2007-03-07 00:47:54 · answer #9 · answered by f0xymoron 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋