Prisons, Gaols, Jails, Asylums, Iron Bars & Court Houses
Featured Work
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Court House by Lois Romer
Lancefield Courthouse. / 3 image HDR with texture layer
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Gates Ajar by Mike Oxley
An unusual headstone in the Woodlawn Cemetary, Cornwall, Ontario Sony Alpha 700, Sigma 17 to 70 at 45 mm / iso 200, spot metered, f5.6, 1/160 second / Tripod
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J-Ward by domestictramp
The gallows at J-ward. / Three men were hung in this building when J-Ward was the Ararat County Goal.
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Doin' Hard Time.......... by kjgordon
From The Vault / My Dad ” The Big Kahuna” painted this Van Gogh Prison Yard over 60 years ago…in oils…..... / Dad studied Van Gogh privately on his own and was influenced by this master. / I am greatly influenced by the greatest Master Artist of all Time….”The Big Kahuna” / THIS IS MY INTERPRETATION OF VAN GOGH’S EXERCISE YARD / / ACRYLIC ON 331/3 LP VINYL ALBUM….It could be a clock / Van Gogh’s / / dads in oils…..... /
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Old Hospital Bed by DariaGrippo
Old hospital building on an active campus, one of the most beautifully haunting scenes I have been lucky to stumble upon Pentax K100D Super 18-55 Kit lens… F/8 and I believe 15 seconds. Nope don’t need expensive equiptment to capture a good shot. Sold a Greeting card as of 8/13/09 Thank you to whoever bought it :) Featured in LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS and Prisons, Gaols, Jails, Asylums, Iron Bars & Court Houses 1,366 Views!!
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Convict Padlock by Marilyn Harris
Blossom’s_Photo_Gallery Convict Padlock This Padlock was made by a convict. It is now on display at the Museum, which was once the Separate Prison. Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia. ============================================== / Featured in the Top 10 of Alphabet_Soup Challenge The_Best_of_P ============================================== / Below is a brief history from the Wikipedia_Website Port Arthur is located on the Tasman Peninsula and is the best preserved convict penal colony in Australia and the most visited place in Tasmania. More than 20,000 people a year wander through the old sandstone remains. Isolated by a narrow strip of land called Eaglehawk neck and a magnificently rugged coastline, it made an ideal location for a penal colony. Port Arthur was home to 12,000 convicts, both men and boys between 1830 and 1877. Tales of infamy and cruel inhumanity abound with prisoners living under threat of the lash and an experimental isolation system which often drove them to madness. Although the discipline was strict, well behaved prisoners were rewarded with easier jobs many being taught trades, reading, writing and arithmetic classes were held after supper. Escape was rare and many stayed till the end of their life, then buried in mass graves on the Isle of the Dead. Today’s Port Arthur is quiet and peaceful with English oaks and green lawns rolling to the water’s edge. The tranquil gardens at Port Arthur are the latest project to be completed in the ongoing restoration programme of the historic site. The 80-cell Separate Prison, where prisoners were kept hooded and in silent isolation, began in 1848, it symbolized what was seen as a new, gentler approach to imprisonment, where psychological punishment replaced floggings. In reality, Port Arthur was just as brutal as other penal settlements and many of the convicts suffered mental illness as a result of isolation. In 1864 an asylum was built to house more than 100 mentally ill patients. It was the last major building, built as late as 1867, only 10 years before the penal colony was closed. After the settlement was closed, the asylum was converted into the town hall. Today, it is used as a museum and cafe. Canon PowerShot A650 IS Shutter Speed: 1/50sec / Aperture: F3.5 / ISO: 320
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General Population, Cornwall Jail by Mike Oxley
The “general population” cell block was the newest area of the Cornwall Jail, built during the last addition in the 1960’s. Each cell has 2 bunks and has its own toiled and small sink. This area also had an interview room for use by the lawyers of inmates in this cell block. Sony Alpha 700, Sigma 17 to 70 at 17 mm / iso 100, spot metered, f2.8, 1/8 second / Tripod / Sepia effect added in Photoshop
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The Lock-Up by Larry Davis
This is the historic Lock-Up Jail in the rural town of Gisborne, not far from where I live. / Back in the mid 1800’s many a travellor was seen in this place on there way to the Goldfields, as the main stables and lock-up is at the rear of the courthouse. / ( hdr x2 images using Dynamic-PhotoHDR and / Picasa3 as Post Op ) =====================
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Prison by Moshe Cohen
Prison is really a mental condition. / It isn’t always the physical condition. / You can be in a five stars hotel and still feel you are in prison. / The fact that you can’t leave the place is what makes the difference. / Nobody can put your mind in prison. You can feel free in prison. The image was taken in the underground prisoners museum in Jerusalem. / The place was the main prison of the British government from 1920 to 1948. / Hundreds of Jewish underground members who fought against the British mandate were imprisoned there. / Similar images: / Hope / / Freedom / / Mental prison /
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Cell 10 by wdphotografics
Cell 10 – Old Adelaide Gaol, South Australia. Shot handheld in difficult lighting conditions and without flash…....in spite of the digital noise inherent, I considered it was worth recording and thought that the poor quality image was somehow in keeping with the standard of accommodation. I want you to know that I was not an inmate when I took this and that is not really my hat. The whole place has a grim atmosphere, especially the hanging room, but fortunately it is not used now and has become a musuem of incarceration. That cell was similar to many others and is barely 1.5 metres wide, so one can imagine how uncomfortable it must have been for a tall person trying to sleep in the hammock. Apart from the hammock, the contents consist of a wooden stool, a bucket with a lid, two pairs of shoes, a hat, two blankets, a pair of white canvas pants, a tin water pitcher, an enamel wash bowl and an oval shaped tin plate. The gaol was opened in 1841 and closed in 1988.
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Bendigo court house. by Dave Miller
Located in the central Victorian town of Bendigo Vic. australia.
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The Penitentiary - Port Arthur by Marilyn Harris
Blossom’s_Photo_Gallery The Penitentiary – Port Arthur As Is – Straight from the Camera Easily the most imposing ruin on the site, the Penitentiary began its life in 1843 as a flour mill and granary. In 1857 it was converted into a penitentiary capable of housing over 480 convicts in both dormitory-style accommodation and separate apartments. Also containing a messroom, library and Catholic chapel, the penitentiary was flanked by the Watchmens’ Quarters, as well as a range of workshops and an ablutions complex. Gutted in the 1897 fires, the building lay derelict until a concerted conservation program began in the 1960s. Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia. Canon PowerShot A650 IS Shutter Speed: 1/800sec / Aperture: F4.0 / ISO: 80
Recent Work
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The Long Walk To Hell by Karin Mai
The Walk way is at the old beechworth Insitution or as some people call these places assylums. beechworth was opened some hundred years ago to house the disabled and people with mental health issues. / These people were locked away from the community usually housed in places like this, up on a hill and a fair way out of town away from the general public. beechworth would have been shut down in similar times as Jane field in Bundoora, KRS in Kew, Rosaleen in Mt Evelyn, Black Springs in Wandin East in The Yarra valley and so forth. These places were shut down and the people moved into homes like you and i live in with usually up to 6 people in them. It was all designed for intergration into the community so that people with disablilities and mental health were not treated like animals and locked away into places like this, so they could live like you and I and go out into the general public and to be treated with dignity and respect like every person on this planet expects to be treated. Funny enough Australia followed Canda and England with closing place like this down and intergrating people back into the community they have now found that they need to rebuild places like this. Australia is about ten years behind England and Canda and it will be interesting to find out what comes up in the next ten years.
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Locked Up by Karin Mai
Lock to a door that leads into a room at Beechworth Insitution, Victoria, Australia
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Just Enough Rope by Terence Russell
Hangman’s Noose hanging from a hook on the ceiling of the Old Palo Pinto County Jail in Palo Pinto, Texas. Camera Info / Canon EOS Rebel T1i / Tamron 18-275mm lens / F-stop f/4 / Exposure 1/15 / ISO 100 / Focus 32mm HDR info / tripod, 1 of 3 bracketed RAW images (used solely due to bad ghosting problems), original exposure tone curved in Photomatrix Pro 3.2
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Untitled by MissyD
The back wall of the old Beechworth Asylum / Beechworth, N.E. Victoria, Australia. / Nikon D40x, 18-55mm Nikkor / 1/200 f10 ISO 800 /
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Untitled by MissyD
Part of the old Beechworth Asylum / Beechworth, N.E. Victoria, Australia / Nikon D40x, 18-55mm Nikkor / 1/125 f5.6 ISO 110 40mm /
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Looking In! by Bev Woodman
Looking in … / Through and beyond at what once was here. / The pain … / The trauma, isolation and the fear. They claimed me to be mad / ... some said this made me bad, / my loved ones thought it sad / but the public though were glad / to see me locked in here! Now there’s nothing really left / to remind me of these days / of the many times locked in here / in a drunken, drugged haze. I’ve served my time in the rehab ward / cured they say was my reward / but despite the horror I endured / I just cannot accept this vandalised ruin. I’ll wipe it from my mind I thought / But try as I can it came to naught / So I guess I’ll watch it crumble and fall / gently rusting … rotting … within these prison walls. / (© copyright Beverley Woodman 2008) This shot was taken amongst the ruins of the prison for the criminally insane at Morisset on Lake Macquarie NSW Australia.
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Come with me by RachelBlack
Abandoned Mental Asylum ( Manteno State Hospital) Chicago, IL / MORGAN COTTAGE~ set for destruction 12/09
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Through The Window by MissyD
Part of the old Beechworth Asylum. / Beechworth, N.E. Victoria, Australia. / Nikon D40x, 18-55mm Nikkor / 1/200 f7.1 ISO 100 40mm /
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A Courtyard Of Sad Times by MissyD
A part of the old Beechworth Asylum. A square box made up of small rooms with a small concrete courtyard in the center. A little something extra to make you even more crazy! / Beechworth, N.E. Victoria, Australia. / Nikon D40x, 18-55mm Nikkor / 1/200 f13 ISO 800 35mm
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Darkness Behind The Class by MissyD
A part of the old Beechworth Asylum / Beechworth, N.E. Victoria, Australia. / Nikon D40x, 105mm VR Micro Nikkor / 1/1000 f8 ISO 800 /
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Where are we? by pennphotography
I headed out to an abandon brewery yesterday with my mate, Andrew and this was a scene I found out one door with out the door attached! This is a HDR photograph I created out of 5 different shots (-2-4/+2+4) that I put together in photomatix and then edited the levels in photoshop. Canon EOS 400d – 18-55mm
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The Historic Prisons & Court Houses group will provide an outlet to showcase the many prisons, court houses, lockups, maybe the vehicles used to transport prisoners and items that may be related to the judicial system, e.g. handcuffs, leg irons, batons, etc. It is a requirement of the group that the image be fully titled and described together with any historic information to add interest and to inform the viewer. Written work should be related to the above and as this site may be used by students for history purposes the work should not be offensive or pornographic. Please enter your best work only – I’m sure we can make this a great site.
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