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 ...

Most every nation has its legends of founders and pioneers, of promising shores and liberating revolutions. Australia, on the other hand, is a penal colony. Dating from the 1770s to the 1840s, its ...

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 ...

Australian citizen Oscar Jenkins has been sentenced to 13 years in a maximum-security penal colony for participating in combat on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by a court in Russian-occupied ...

Life in Australia’s 19th-century penal colonies was harsh and unforgiving. Isolation, punishment, and forced labor drove many convicts to attempt escape. Some plans were ingenious, others reckless.