The Taoiseach says there are few alternatives to reusing the former Cork prison site to provide extra prison spaces. Micheál Martin made his comments as political opposition mounts against the ...

Nestling in the historical city of Oxford is a former Victorian prison transformed ... and it is quite literally a prison." She described her journey to the cell block and how she entered her ...

Every so often, we all crave a luxurious getaway and one woman insists that you try out a raved about hotel with a twist Nestled in the heart of Oxford is a former Victorian prison that has been ...

This squalid 170-year-old Victorian edifice ... Mr Taylor found that the prison's education block had sat unused since March 2020 and 'gym sessions were regularly cancelled'.

For 100 years, between 1835 and 1935, the whole area around Clifford's Tower was occupied by a grim Victorian prison. Prison blocks radiated out from a central administrative hub like spokes from ...

“If you look at them from the air — the house blocks, the wings are organised as Victorian prisons were. They've gone back to that layout,” Karthaus says. Last year, while working on a ...

The Victorian prison stood for almost exactly ... standing beside Clifford’s Tower on what is now the car park, were four prison blocks, radiating like spokes from the new governor’s residence ...

Speculation about what will replace these notorious Victorian “houses of correction ... exercise yards and punishment blocks. Other former prisons have experienced more imaginative, if ...

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But, oddly, Victorian prison design is coming back. The layout of Thameside, a privately run prison that opened in 2012, mirrors that of the loathed Pentonville. Wings on the main block radiate ...

Some areas still retain their Victorian ... for 90 minute prison tours at $20 for adults with the money going to the charity United Way. KP- front gate at bottom, original 4-block structure ...

Yellow areas denote shared services such as kitchens, gym and education blocks ... maintain than the “damp Victorian dungeons” they would replace. “New hub prisons will not only reduce ...