Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. For centuries, the English resisted spending tax money on prisons. As a result, North America was populated largely by transported persons who were in contact, or at risk of being in contact, with England’s criminal justice system. After the American Revolution, when that cost cutting strategy failed, the English developed a system of “hulks”—large old ships, no longer seaworthy, were chained to the docks and subdivided into prison cells. But by 1787 the English realized that they could transport their felons to Australia, and a new period of convict transportation began. Eventually that system failed, too. Large numbers of difficult to manage Irish political prisoners arrived at the “down under” penal colonies and the free Australian colonists closed their doors to transported felons, just as the Americans had done earlier.

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英国人马修·达文波特·希尔（Matthew Davenport Hill）处于英国反监狱改革的异常时期

除非另有说明，否则本网站上的内容均根据知识共享署名4.0国际许可进行许可。几个世纪以来，英国人一直拒绝在监狱上花费税收。结果，北美洲的人口主要是与英国的刑事司法系统有接触或有接触危险的运输人员。美国独立战争之后，当这种削减成本的策略失败时，英国人开发了一个“巨人”系统，即不再具有适航能力的大型旧船被拴在码头上，并细分为监狱牢房。但是到了1787年，英国人意识到他们可以将重罪犯运到澳大利亚，新的罪犯运输时期开始了。最终，该系统也失败了。