Oh get off your high horse, for Christs sake. I'd heard that once the ships got to Australia, everybody was in the same boat.(no pun) Sometimes it wasn't a very pleasant boat either, but everybody shared the predicament. I didn't look into it, but had assumed that most of the "convicts" were not criminals in the true sense of the word. In merry old England being convicted had no bearing on guilt, only wealth and social standing. Most of them were convicted of being in the way. If they kept them in jail it cost money so most everything was a hanging offence.
What possible difference could it make 200 years later? Somebody picking on you? It's a fucking joke, get over it. You take
way more shots at the US than everybody here, put together, takes at Australia. So you don't have a leg to stand on, no sympathy for you.
penal colony
pe·nal col·o·ny (plural pe·nal col·o·nies)
noun
Definition:
prison at remote location: a place of imprisonment and punishment at a remote location
penal colony
noun ~a penal
institution where prisoners are exiled (often located on an island from which escape is difficult or impossible)
Devil's Island was a penal colony.