Mental Health

Figure 1: Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, c 1870s, State Library of Western Australia. Call No. 5770B/48

Unwell or Unwanted? The Mental Health of Western Australia’s Convict Population

Posted by Emma Battell Lowman in Carceral Archipelago on October 17, 2016

By Kellie Moss Western Australia welcomed the transportation of convicts in 1850 as a solution to the economic problems which had affected the colony since its foundation as a free settlement in 1829. However, the 1857 Penal Servitude Act significantly altered the kinds of convicts being sent as deportation was discontinued for sentences shorter than […]

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