May 8, 2020 · Learn about Point Puer, site of the British Empire's first prison for boys, in this brief history.

Jun 12, 2016 · The prison settlement on Point Puer, a promontory in Opossum Bay, Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia, was established to cater for boys sentenced to penal servitude by the courts of England. It operated from 1834 to 1849 as part of the prison at Port Arthur.

Point Puer operated from 1834 to 1848 on the Tasman Peninsula, the first British purpose-built reforming institution for criminal boys. It predated Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight by four years and was initiated by Lt-Governor Arthur at a time when children were being seen in their own terms, rather than as small adults.

In the remotest part of the British Empire, without formal British government approval, instructions or appropriate resourcing, Tasmania's Point Puer was the first prison built exclusively for boys, …

Just two years before Victoria ascended the throne, a British prison for boys was established on the southernmost part of Australia, the island of Van Diemen's Land. From 1834 to 1849 this most remote of Antipodean prisons, and the only one restricted to boys, functioned at Point Puer, a few miles from Port Arthur. 1

On a wind-swept point opposite Port Arthur, the adult prison started in 1830, Point Puer and its parent settlement functioned as “sawing stations”. The heavily forested peninsula provided sawn timber for government projects in the south of the island.

Point Puer was a reformatory for boys who had been transported from Britain. It closed in 1849. Point Puer was established by Governor Arthur to accommodate boys aged between 10 and 14.

Mar 1, 2014 · Point Puer is the site of the first reformatory built for boy convicts, aged 9 - 15, in the British Empire and operated from 1834 to 1849. It is part of the Port Arthur historic site and tours can be booked there to get information on the site.

Point Puer operated from 1834 to 1848 on the Tasman Peninsula, the first British purpose-built reforming institution for criminal boys. It predated Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight by four years and was initiated by Lt-Governor Arthur at a time when children were being seen in their own terms, rather than as small adults.

When Mitchell left Point Puer in 1848 to move to his Lisdillon property, he took with him a former inmate, Thomas Gray, whom Mitchell always referred to as 'my boy Gray', even when Gray was an adult.