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Gladstone Gaol

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Australian Prisons
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Latitude
-33.345
Longitude
138.413
Start Date
1881
End Date
1975

Description

Designed to house both male and female inmates, Gladstone Gaol was?based on a model prison plan by the then governor of Bristol Prison in England. By the 1920s, however, the gaol had a reputation for having particularly harsh conditions. In 1939 all prisoners in the gaol was transferred to Adelaide to enable the military to use the site as an internment camp, and then later a military detention barracks. The prison was reopened in 1952 and from that time was mostly used to house males under 25 years who it was felt needed to be kept away from the 'hardened criminals' elsewhere. The prison closed in 1975 due to the outdated nature of the facilities, and since 1978 has been open to visitors as a tourist attraction.

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t964