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Prison Museums and History
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Fremantle Prison Museum - Australlia
Fremantle, Australia The Fremantle Prison is one of Western Australia's premier heritage sites, centrally located in the heart of the port city of Fremantle. The Prison was built by convicts in the 1850’s. After 136 years of continuous use, the prison was closed in 1991. The following year it was opened to the public as a tourist site. |
Gulag Museum - Russia
Perm, Russia The Gulag Museum is the only preserved labor camp in Russia. Between 1946 and 1987 “several thousand men, many charged only with the ‘crime’ of free speech, were transported under the cover of night to this maximum security prison to serve sentences as long as 25 years.” Today, the museum staff is focusing on preserving and reconstructing the camp, which contains historical research, artifacts, documents, and oral history. |
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Hale Paahoa Museum - Hawaii
Lahaina, Maui, HI Hale Paahao, "the stuck-in-irons house," was so named because of its standard wall shackles and ball-and-chain restraints. The prison house was built of planks in 1852. There were separate quarters for men and women and a catwalk which allowed a guard to patrol the grounds. Most prisoners were incarcerated for deserting ship, drunkenness, working on the Sabbath or reckless horse |
Hameenlinna Provincial Prison Museum - Finland
Hämeenlinna, Finland The Prison Museun operates within the old Provincial Prison in Hämeenlinna. On its completion in 1871, the building was Finland's first cell prison and it was used as a prison right up to 1993. The Museum was opened to the public in June 1997. |
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Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum
Stanley, Hong Kong The penal system in Hong Kong has a history of over 160 years. In this long stream of time, numerous reforms and developments took place in response to the economic, political, judicial and social changes of Hong Kong at different points of time. Inside the museum, visitors will find nine galleries, one mock gallows and two mock cells. A mock guard tower constructed on the top of the premises highlights the theme of the museum. |
Huron Historic Gaol - Canada
Goderich, Ontario Canada Opened in 1842, the Huron County Jail, designed by architect Thomas Young, was considered as a model of humanitarian prison design at the time. The building originally housed the County Courts and Council Chambers, as well as serving as Gaol and House of Refuge. This unique and imposing octagonal building served as the Huron County Jail until 1972. |
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Inveraray Jail - Scotland
Inveraray, Argyll Scotland Since opening in 1989, Inveraray Jail has established itself as one of Scotland's most exciting heritage attractions. Visit the magnificently restored 1820 Courtroom where you can sit and listen to excerpts from trials of the past. Then pass on to the prisons below, and meet with our Warders, Matron and Prisoners in period costumes. See the airing yards, furnished cells and experience prison sounds and smells. |
Jackson County Jail - Missouri
Independence, MO The two-story 1859 Jackson County Jail, with its barred windows and double iron doors, gives a chilling look at the rigors of frontier justice. The jail held prisoners until1933 when the building began being used for regional relief services during the Depression. It is thought to be the only such building standing in the Midwest today. |
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Kilmainham Gaol - Ireland
Kilmainham, Dublin County Ireland Kilmainham Gaol is believed to be the largest unused prisons in Europe. It was here that the rebels of the last 150 years of British rule were held and it was here that the leaders of the 1916 Rising were executed. No other single event propelled Ireland to independence. The Gaol was much neglected since Eamon De Valera left it as the last prisoner in 1924 and although it has undergone much renovation since the terrible character of the place is undiminished. |
Lincoln Castle - England
Lincoln, England Lincoln Castle was one of the first great castles to be built by William the Conqueror. Begun in 1068 he used the hill top site that the Romans had occupied with their first fort. The prison was built on the castle green enclosure in 1787 and enlarged by the Victorians. Many prisoners here were deported to Australia and many more were executed on the ramparts. |
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Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum/Index
Angola, LA The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is located in West Feliciana Parish, approximately fifty-nine miles northwest of Baton Rouge. Prior to 1835, inmates were housed in a vermin infested jail in New Orleans. In that year the first Louisiana State Penitentiary was built using a plan similar to a prison in Wethersfield, Connecticut. |
Långholmen Prison Museum - Stockholm
Långholmen is Stockholm’s seventh-largest island, and perhaps the one about which most myths and stories are told, because of the old prison. Now you can discover for yourself that it is not only an exciting place, but a piece of unspoilt countryside. |
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Manzanar War Relocation Center - California
Independence, CA Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps at which Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II. Located at the foot of the imposing Sierra Nevada in eastern California's Owens Valley, Manzanar has been identified as the best preserved of these camps. |
Museum of Colorado Prisons
Cañon City, in southern Colorado, is the home of the Museum of Colorado Prisons, a showcase of the atmosphere and exhibits of days, staff and inmates gone by. A visit to the the Royal Gorge Region isn't complete without stopping and "doing" time in this historical cell house that was the original Women's Correctional Facility constructed in 1935. |
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New York Correction History Society
Albany, NY The New York State prison system had its beginnings in 1797 with a single prison (called Newgate after the infamous London jail) located in what is now Greenwich Village. The corrections museum chronicles the fascinating history of New York prisons through a collection of striped prison uniforms, restraint devices and other archives. |
Ohio State Reformatory - Mansfield, Ohio - Shawshank
 (1 vote)Mansfield, OH The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio first opened to inmates in 1896, when the first 150 moved into from the Ohio Pen. Construction lasted until 1910. The prison was opperational until December 31, 1990 when all remaining staff and inmates were transfered to the new MANCI built across the railroad tracks. Shawshank Redemption, AirForce One and others were filmed here. Submitted 08/22/2007, edited 09/11/2007. 134 hits outgoing, 0 incoming.  Details
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Old Idaho Penitentiary
Boise, ID Idaho Territory was less than ten years old when the territorial prison was built east of Boise in 1870. The penitentiary grew from a single cellhouse into a complex of several distinctive buildings surrounded by a high sandstone wall. Convicts quarried the stone from the nearby ridges and completed all the later construction. |
Old Jail Museum - Florida
St. Augustine, FL USA You will see where the sheriff, Joe Perry and his wife Lou, lived and worked for $2.00 a day at St. Augustine's Old Jail. You will hear of actual crimes and punishments that were a part of life for prisoners who lived in these tiny cells. Old Jail Museum 167 San Marco Ave. Saint Augustine Beach, FL 32084 |
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Old Jail Museum - Indiana
Montgomery County, IN USA Completed in 1882, the Rotary Jail of Montgomery County was designed by William H. Brown and Benjamin F. Haugh of Indianapolis, and was the first rotary jail built in the United States. The rotary cellblock consists of a two-tiered turntable housed within a stationary steel cage with one opening per story. The jailer would simply rotate the mechanism to bring a particular cell to the opening, and in this way prisoners were put into and taken out of the cells. The turntable remained in operation until 1939 when it was immobilized, and the jail was finally closed in 1973. Submitted 08/22/2007, edited 09/04/2007. 70 hits outgoing, 0 incoming. Details
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Old Jail Museum - Pennsylvania
Jim Thorpe, PA USA Built in 1871, The Old Jail Museum was the county jail until 1995 and is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings. Visitors can tour the 28 cells, view the gallows on which four men hanged at one time and see the infamous hand print of Cell 17. |
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