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Hobart Gaol

Layer
Australian Prisons
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Type
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Details

Latitude
-42.877
Longitude
147.327
Start Date
1821
End Date
1963

Description

Built by convict labour, this gaol was originally used to house male convicts, with accommodations for 640 men. However, extensions across the 1820s soon meant the gaol could house twice that figure. From 1846 it was increasingly used as a civilian prison, especially after the cessation of transportation to Tasmania in 1853. It was the site of 32 executions between 1857 and 1946. The gaol finally closed in 1963, following the establishment of a new facility, Risdon Prison,?a few years earlier. A small group of gaol buildings remain intact at the corner of Campbell and Brisbane Street, now known as the Penitentiary Chapel Historic Site, which is open to the visiting public.

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t960