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Author Nicholson, John, 1950-

Title Australia locked up / written and illustrated by John Nicholson
Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2006

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 W'PONDS CRC  364.60994 Nic/Alu  AVAILABLE
 W'BOOL CRC  364.60994 Nic/Alu  AVAILABLE
Description 40 pages : color illustrations, map ; 28 cm
Series Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge ; 7-8
Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge ; 5-6
Contents To the end of the earth -- Punishment -- Palaces of punishment -- Special prisons for special groups -- Internment -- Confusions and conclusions -- Glossary
Summary Our prisons, detention centres and camps have housed convicts, POW's, Aborigines, women, children, refugees and asylum seekers. This is a clear and honest account of punishment and imprisonment in Australia, from the open jail of early Sydney to today's detention centres. For ages 10-14
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: page 40
Audience For children
Subject Prisons -- Australia.
Punishment -- Australia.
Prisons -- Australia.
Punishment -- Australia.
Prisons -- Australia -- Juvenile literature.
Punishment -- Australia -- Juvenile literature.
Genre/Form Juvenile works.
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