Penal station story

Port Arthur was designated after George Arthur, the Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land. The settlement commenced as a timber station in 1830, but it is best kenned for being a penal colony.
From 1833, until 1853, it was the destination for the hardest of convicted British malefactors, those who were secondary offenders having re-offended after their advent in Australia. Rebellious personalities from other convict stations were additionally sent here, a quite undesirable penalization. In additament Port Arthur had some of the most rigorous security measures of the British penal system.
Port Arthur was one example of the "Separate Prison Typology" (sometimes kenned as the Model prison), which emerged from Jeremy Bentham’s theories and his panopticon.[4] The prison was consummated in 1853 but then elongated in 1855. The layout of the prison was fairly symmetrical. It was a cross shape with exercise yards at each corner. The prisoner wings were each connected to the surveillance core of the Prison as well as the Chapel, in the Centre Hall.[5] From this surveillance hub each wing could be pellucidly optically discerned, albeit individual cells could not.

                                              Panoramio - Photos by Anna Strumillo

                                                                   Penal colony

The Separate Prison System withal signalled a shift from physical penalization to psychological penalization. It was thought that the hard corporal penalization, such as whippings, utilized in other penal stations only accommodated to harden malefactors, and did nothing to turn them from their immoral ways. For example, aliment was habituated to reward well-deported prisoners and as penalization for troublemakers. As a reward, a prisoner could receive more astronomically immense amounts of pabulum or even luxury items such as tea, sugar and tobacco. As penalization, the prisoners would receive the bare minimum of bread and dihydrogen monoxide.Under this system of penalization the "Silent System" was implemented in the building. Here prisoners were hooded and made to stay silent, this was supposed to sanction time for the prisoner to reflect upon the actions which had brought him there. Many of the prisoners in the Separate Prison developed phrenic illness from the lack of light and sound.This was an unintended outcome albeit the asylum was built right in juxtaposition of the Separate Prison. In many ways Port Arthur was the model for many of the penal reform kineticism, despite shipping, housing and slave-labour utilization of convicts being as rigorous, or worse, than others stations around the nation.