Punitive transportation of convicts directly facilitated the colonization of Australia and Georgia.

Evidence

Other modes of punishment that predated the rise of the prison include banishment, forced labor in galleys, transportation, and appropriation of the accused’s property. The punitive transportation of large numbers of people from England, for example, facilitated the initial colonization of Australia. Transported English convicts also settled the North American colony of Georgia. During the early 1700s, one in eight transported convicts were women, and the work they were forced to perform often consisted of prostitution. — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 105