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Name
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Cockatoo Island Prison Barracks Precinct
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Type of carceral site
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Penal Settlement
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Quote
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The expence of erecting shelter on Cockatoo Island for these men will not be greater than it would have been necessary to incur at Norfolk Island, if they had not been removed; for Norfolk Island was so full, that we could not in March last send another man there, so crowded was every building. By bringing them from Norfolk Island to Cockatoo, the duration of their sentences is reduced by more than one half, and they are more-over brought under the immediate eye of the Governor.
Colonial Correspondance
Correspondance to Lord Glenelg, 8 July 1839, Historical Records of Australia, Series 1, Vol. XX, p. 217.
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Authority
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1830 Offenders' Punishment and Transportation Act
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Archives and sources
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Castrique, Sue. Under the Colony's Eye: Gentlemen and Convicts on Cockatoo Island 1830-1969. Anchor Books Australia, 2014.
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Contact
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Dashiell
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identifier
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SITE-CKI