From Jail to Georgia
Q Eighteenth-century Georgia was really just King George’s penal colony, right?
A Georgia wasn’t penal in the strict sense, like Devil’s Island in French Guiana. But as conceived by its founder James Oglethorpe and his trustees in London, Georgia was expressly built on the theory of work release. One of Oglethorpe’s selling points to King George II for the initial grant was that manning up the
