A still from footage of Oscar Jenkins released by court in Russian-controlled Ukraine An Australian who fought for Ukraine has been sentenced to 13 years in a penal colony by a Russian-controlled ...

Being a convict at an Australian penal colony in the 19th century was a harrowing experience. Once there, convicts often came up with imaginative and, sometimes desperate, ways to try and escape the ...

Life in Australia’s 19th-century penal colonies was harsh and unforgiving. Isolation, punishment, and forced labor drove many ...