Category: Fremantle Prison

The tunnels are 20 metres underground and some are accessed by boat as they’re partly flooded. In the 1980s there have been rising concerns about situations in the jail and this combined with a series or riots led to the prison closing on November 8th 1991. During the Second World…

With death row, solitary cells and gallows, it is a monument to a system of punishment that’s uncomfortably current. The building included 4 levels of cells, with every cell measuring barely greater than two and a half square metres. This exceptionally small cell size was as a outcome of the…