Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt
by nickdothutton on Saturday August 27, 2022 @03:28PM
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Not quite, Australia wasnt an independent country at the time. It only gained independence in 1901. The last prisoner was shipped to the penal colony around 1870. So there was no Australian state to sign any agreement with. UK was until very recently in the EU with Greece. Might even get the prisoners superior conditions, some of UKs jails are Victorian in construction and very overcrowded.
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Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt
by wizofaus on Saturday August 27, 2022 @03:34PM
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> Australia wasnt an independent country at the time
It had been occupied for 65000 years by people that might have argued otherwise though!
Re:At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt
by nickdothutton on Saturday August 27, 2022 @03:39PM
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Unfortunately for those people, they hadn’t formed a state or anything approaching one, and were still busy fighting each other along tribal lines. I suppose the colonists could have tried a deal with the largest tribe at the time, who could have then imposed their agreement on the other tribes by force.