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Fremantle Prison (historic)
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Convict-built limestone prison; UNESCO World Heritage Site (Australian Convict Sites). Now a tourist attraction.
Background
Fremantle Prison, sometimes referred to as Fremantle Gaol or Fremantle Jail, is a former Australian prison and World Heritage Site in Fremantle, Western Australia. The site includes the prison cellblocks, gatehouse, perimeter walls, cottages, and tunnels. It was initially used for convicts transported from Britain, but was transferred to the colonial government in 1886 for use for locally-sentenced prisoners. Royal Commissions were held in 1898 and 1911, and instigated some reform to the prison system, but significant changes did not begin until the 1960s. The government department in charge of the prison underwent several reorganisations in the 1970s and 1980s, but the culture of Fremantle Prison was resistant to change.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1855
Closed 1991
Facility profile
Operator
Department of Justice (Corrective Services WA, decommissioned)
Population held
male
Opened
1855
Region
Western Australia
Security level
Maximum
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Data completeness
58%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- UNESCO — Australian Convict Sites
- Fremantle Prison official site
- Australian state and territory corrections departments (consolidated) — State agencies — Corrective Services NSW, Corrections Victoria, QCS, DCS-SA, DOJ-WA, DOJ-TAS, NTCS, ACTCS
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.