Excerpt from Our Convicts, Vol. 2
The English and the Irish Convict Systems were both founded on the Act of Parliament of 1853. The object of that Act was to make such changes in the system adopted towards Convicts, as would prepare them for discharge in our own country, since our Colonial provinces were virtually closed against them, Western Australia only consenting still to receive a small number annually. We have seen that in England the system has hitherto been a failure, but have traced that failure, not to the principles on which that and the subsequent one of 1857 were founded, but to certain omissions and additions which were incompatible with the successful working of the principles. We now proceed to the examination of the Irish Convict System, which has fully developed the principles of both those Acts.
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