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Latitude-32.0559 Longitude115.741 Start Date1831 End Date1900
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The first permanent building of the Swan River Colony, which had been established two years earlier in 1829, the Round House at Fremantle is today the oldest extant building in Western Australia. Based on Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon design, the prison consisted of eight cells and a gaoler's residence. It was used to house colonial and Indigenous prisoners until 1886, when convicted locals began being sent to Fremantle Prison (formerly a prison for convict transportees) instead. The Round House remained in use as a police lockup until 1900. Today the site is a heritage tourist attraction.
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Latitude-32.0043 Longitude115.516 Start Date1838 End Date1902
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Rottnest Island was first used as a prison by colonial authorities in 1838 when six Aboriginal prisoners were sent there under the superintendence of a small military force. The following year?it was announced that the island would thenceforth be used as a prison for Aboriginal offenders. In 1881, a reformatory for boys was also opened on the island.?Some 3,700 Aboriginal men and boys were imprisoned at Rottnest Island across the facility's duration, with the reformatory closing in 1901 and the prison closing in 1902.?It was used as an internment camp during both World Wars. During the late twentieth century the former prison cells were used as tourist holiday accommodation, but in May 2018 the prison site, known as the 'Quod', was handed back to the Rottnest Island Authority. It has been suggested that the site may become a museum to the prison's history.?
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- Aboriginal
- Aboriginal
- Children
- Juvenile
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Latitude-23.7277 Longitude133.864 Start Date1904 End Date1909
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This small wooden police hut was the first prison in Central Australia. The first prisoners committed there were eight Aboriginal males (including two boys aged 14 and 16), who had been convicted of 'larceny of beef' or cattle killing. Sentences in the group ranged from 14 days hard labour for the two teenage boys to up to 6 months hard labour for the adults. All six escaped from the gaol but were eventually recaptured. The Heavitree Gap Gaol closed in 1909 when the purpose-built Stuart Town Gaol opened. The wooden gaol hut no longer exists, but restored stone buildings associated with the police station were declared a historical reserve in 1979.
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- Female
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- Aboriginal
- Aboriginal
- Children
- Juvenile
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Latitude-23.6984 Longitude133.881 Start Date1909 End Date1938
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The Stuart Town Gaol was established in Parsons Street in?Alice Springs, then called Stuart, in 1909. It housed male and female inmates of all ages. There were two cells - one for European and one for Aboriginal prisoners. Numbers of prisoners were initially fairly low, but increased sharply after the railway reached Stuart in 1929. When the name of the town was changed to Alice Springs in 1933 the gaol became known as the Alice Springs Gaol. It closed in 1938 with the opening of the HM Gaol and Labour Prison Alice Springs at Stuart Terrace. Today the Stuart Town Gaol, the oldest surviving building in Alice Springs, houses memorabilia related to police history and life in Central Australia.
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- Female
- Female
- Male
- Male
- Aboriginal
- Aboriginal
- Children
- Other
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Latitude-12.4255 Longitude130.837 Start Date1883 End Date1979
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Fannie Bay Gaol in Darwin opened in 1883. Five years later Deputy Sheriff John George Knight collected drawings made by Aboriginal prisoners at the gaol and sent them for display at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition, one of the earliest exhibitions of Aboriginal art. Women prisoners at the gaol were housed for many years in the Gaoler's residence, but in 1928 a female cellblock was constructed. The prison was damaged and temporarily closed when Cyclone Tracy hit Darwin in 1974. The gaol closed permanently in 1979, and is now a museum open to the public.
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- Female
- Female
- Male
- Other
- Aboriginal
- Aboriginal
- Children
- Other
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Latitude-23.7041 Longitude133.877 Start Date1938 End Date1993
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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.
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- Convict
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- Female
- Female
- Male
- Male
- Aboriginal
- Aboriginal
- Children
- Other
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Latitude-12.3861 Longitude132.128 Start Date1986 End Date2003
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A minimum-security, 20-bed facility for juvenile males located within the Mary River National Park. It was designed to promote the rehabilitation of juvenile detainees from remote Aboriginal communities. It closed in 2003.
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- Convict
- Other
- Female
- Other
- Male
- Male
- Aboriginal
- Aboriginal
- Children
- Juvenile
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Latitude-30.5322 Longitude146.875 Start Date2000 End Date2999
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A minimum-security, 70-bed prison for Aboriginal males, mostly first-time offenders aged 18 to 25.?Yetta Dhinnakkal?is an indigenous phrase meaning 'the right path'. The facility - previously a cattle station - is an outdoor prison without walls or fences where inmates are guided by tribal elders, and undertake vocational training.
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- Convict
- Other
- Female
- Other
- Male
- Male
- Aboriginal
- Aboriginal
- Children
- Other
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Latitude-17.3531 Longitude123.679 Start Date2012 End Date2999
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A minimum to medium-security prison with accommodations for 120 male and 30 female prisoners. This architecture award-winning facility consists of 42 buildings, and is specifically designed to meet the needs of and provide programs for Aboriginal prisoners.
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- Convict
- Other
- Female
- Female
- Male
- Male
- Aboriginal
- Aboriginal
- Children
- Other
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