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  • Thumbnail for The Ballad of Reading Gaol
    Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand and Naples, after his release from Reading Gaol (/rɛ.dɪŋ.dʒeɪl/)...
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  • Natal in the 1930s, described the Old Gaol as it was in 1920 in his book A Natal Family Looks Back as follows: "The gaol, like the court house, was also constructed...
    1 KB (147 words) - 01:53, 26 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Darlinghurst Gaol
    The Darlinghurst Gaol is a former Australian prison located in Darlinghurst, New South Wales. The site is bordered by Darlinghurst Road, Burton and Forbes...
    10 KB (913 words) - 12:29, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Old Melbourne Gaol
    The Old Melbourne Gaol is a former jail and current museum on Russell Street, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It consists of a bluestone building and...
    51 KB (4,601 words) - 23:41, 23 October 2024
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    Typhus (redirect from Gaol fever)
    estimated that each year, a quarter of the prisoners had died from gaol fever. In London, gaol fever frequently broke out among the ill-kept prisoners of Newgate...
    34 KB (3,477 words) - 14:27, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Gambier Gaol
    Corporation; Old Mount Gambier Gaol History Project Group (1999), H.M. Gaol Mount Gambier, 1866–1995, South East Book Promotions for the City of Mount...
    4 KB (246 words) - 17:33, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richmond Gaol
    Richmond Gaol is a convict era building and tourist attraction in Richmond, Tasmania, and is the oldest intact gaol in Australia. Building of the gaol commenced...
    7 KB (796 words) - 15:25, 17 March 2024
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    The Gaol Act (4 Geo. 4. c. 64), sometimes called the Gaol Act 1823, the Gaols Act 1823, the Gaols, etc. (England) Act 1823, the Prison Act 1823, or the...
    7 KB (707 words) - 12:41, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hay Gaol
    The Hay Gaol is a heritage-listed former prison and now museum at 355 Church Street, Hay, Hay Shire, New South Wales, Australia. It was an adult prison...
    39 KB (5,883 words) - 02:18, 17 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boston Gaol (Massachusetts)
    The Boston Gaol (1635–1822) was a jail in the center of Boston, Massachusetts, located off Court Street, in the block bounded by School, Washington and...
    14 KB (1,381 words) - 20:14, 22 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wentworth Gaol
    The Wentworth Gaol is a heritage-listed former gaol and school building and now museum (gaol building) and old wares shop (gaolers residence) located at...
    23 KB (3,007 words) - 12:23, 24 June 2024
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    were built as early as 1832 when floggings were common. The first Goulburn Gaol was proclaimed on 28 June 1847, attached to the local Courthouse. When the...
    33 KB (2,521 words) - 04:48, 29 August 2024
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    Mountjoy Prison (Irish: Príosún Mhuinseo), founded as Mountjoy Gaol and nicknamed The Joy, is a medium security men's prison located in Phibsborough in...
    17 KB (1,854 words) - 18:37, 5 November 2024
  • Priscilla Hertati Lumban Gaol (born May 16, 1988) is an Indonesian martial artist who has represented the country in various international competitions...
    12 KB (647 words) - 06:07, 10 June 2024
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    Assizes (redirect from Gaol delivery)
    cases. The commission of gaol delivery required the justices to try all prisoners not yet tried by judges held in the gaols. Historically, all justices...
    14 KB (1,508 words) - 23:20, 13 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for HM Prison Durham
    HM Prison Durham (redirect from Durham Gaol)
    custodial facilities, which became known as the Northgate Prison or the County Gaol, and was enlarged in 1773. There was also a House of Correction, also known...
    18 KB (1,556 words) - 20:30, 30 August 2024
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    as the principal prison complex in NSW and as Sydney's major metropolitan gaol for over 80 years. It has research potential in penal practices and building...
    44 KB (4,179 words) - 12:40, 15 September 2024
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    4 and Section 5, and, in 1907, a women's section was added, the Women's Gaol. An awaiting-trial block was constructed in the 1920s. Both political activists...
    11 KB (1,299 words) - 22:49, 2 November 2024
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    Prison (redirect from Gaol)
    A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, and slammer, is...
    137 KB (14,824 words) - 00:12, 16 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Stuart Town Gaol
    Stuart Town Gaol in Alice Springs (formerly Stuart), Northern Territory, Australia, located on 9 Parson Street, was constructed in 1907, when Alice Springs...
    7 KB (950 words) - 05:30, 10 August 2024
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