Fremantle Prison
Convict-built limestone prison with reinforced cells once meant to hold an escape artist.
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This guide to Fremantle Prison follows Joseph Bolitho Johns, the convict known as Moondyne Joe, who kept escaping the limestone walls built by convict labor in colonial Western Australia. After his third breakout in four months, the colony's governor built a special reinforced cell just to hold him, packed with over a thousand iron nails, and is said to have made Joe a personal promise about what would happen if he ever got out again. Listen near the old perimeter wall, where guards later put Joe back to ordinary stone-breaking labor.
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