Doing time

Monument to a punishment system that is uncomfortably recent, World Heritage Site Fremantle Goal is Australia's largest, most intact historic prison. In 1851 transported convicts were brought to built the sandstone prison (from a quarry onsite and local jarra timber) which was only closed in 1991. Conditions would have been hellish, including the ghoulish execution chamber where 44 were hanged, the last in 1963.

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