Child convicts, lost boys and the murder at Point Puer

Conversations
17/10/2019 51 min
Child convicts, lost boys and the murder at Point Puer

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British boys as young as nine were transported to Van Diemen's Land for petty crime. 3000 of them were incarcerated at Point Puer, the first prison in the world built exclusively for children

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