Log in

Search Results

Advanced Search
KML CSV GeoJSON RO-Crate
KML CSV GeoJSON
3D Viewer Cluster Journey Route Werekata Flight by Route Temporal Earth

Note: Layers are contributed from many sources by many people or derived by computer and are the responsibility of the contributor. Layers may be incomplete and locations and dates may be imprecise. Check the layer for details about the source. Absence in TLCMap does not indicate absence in reality. Use of TLCMap may inform heritage research but is not a substitute for established formal and legal processes and consultation.

Log in to save searches and contribute layers.
Displaying 1 result from a total of 1:

SORT: Placename | State | LGA | Feature_term | Latitude | Longitude | Start Date | End Date |

Alice Springs Prison

Layer
Australian Prisons
Link back to source:
Type
Other
3D Viewer Temporal Earth Google Maps Trove Search

Details

Latitude
-23.7041
Longitude
133.877
Start Date
1938
End Date
1993

Description

A gaol opened in 1938 to accommodate both male and female prisoners (in separate cell blocks). The gaol was the Northern Territory's only correctional facility for a time following the bombing of Darwin in 1942, and again for a short time in 1974 when Darwin's Fannie Bay Gaol was damaged by Cyclone Tracy. Until 1964, male?inmates were?segregated by race within the facility.?Originally built to detain 22 prisoners, from the mid 1960s prison numbers rose sharply so that by 1975 there were 121 inmates in the gaol, even though the optimum number of prisoners the gaol had capacity for was estimated at 60. The high incarceration rates disproportionately involved Aboriginal offenders. In 1993 the gaol was closed, and after a brief battle between heritage organisations and private developers wanting to demolish the buildings, the complex was leased to the National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame to open a museum that includes exhibitions about the site's prison history.

Sources

ID
t96f