HM Prison Dartmoor is a Category C men's prison, located in Princetown, high on Dartmoor in the English county of Devon.

Dartmoor Prison was reopened in 1851 as a civilian prison, but was closed again in 1917 to be converted into a Home Office Work Centre for certain conscientious objectors granted release from prison ; cells were unlocked, inmates wore their own clothes, and could visit the village in their off-duty time.

Main gates of Dartmoor Prison

In 2002 the Prison Reform Trust warned that Dartmoor Prison may be breaching the Human Rights Act 1998 due to severe overcrowding at the jail.

The Dartmoor Prison Museum, located in the old dairy buildings, focuses on the history of HMP Dartmoor.

* Decline and Fall, a novel by Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1928 makes thinly disguised references to Dartmoor Prison.

* Dartmoor Prison is mentioned in The Thirteen Problems, a short story collection written by Agatha Christie, and first published in 1932.

* Dressed to Kill, A 1946 Sherlock Holmes film uses Dartmoor Prison in the plot as the supposed location where three music boxes were made that contain a secret code for a criminal gang.

A cardboard replica is left in its place, which is left standing after the original Dartmoor Prison sinks with all hands at the end of the episode.

* Comedy Band The Barron Knights ' 1978 UK # 3 hit single A Taste Of Aggro, a medley of parodies, included a version of The Smurf Song featuring, in place of the Smurfs, a group of bank robbers from Catford who have escaped from Dartmoor Prison.

Princetown is best known as the site of Dartmoor Prison.

Photograph of prisoners at the Dartmoor ( HM Prison ) | Dartmoor Prison tied together carrying a cart out the gates, circa 1900.

Dartmoor Prison was built in 1806 at a cost of £ 130, 000 and at one time had a capacity between 7, 000 and 9, 000 prisoners.

* May 24 – Dartmoor Prison opens in England to house French prisoners of war.

Peter, a sailor, had been briefly imprisoned by the British at Dartmoor Prison during the Napoleonic Wars ; he broke jail, made his way back to the sea, and later left his ship in New Orleans, where he used his savings to buy then-inexpensive land northwest of Lake Pontchartrain.

In the " Tales of Old Dartmoor " episode ( recorded in 1956 ) of The Goon Show radio comedy series, Grytpype-Thynne arranges for Dartmoor Prison to put to sea to visit the Château d ' If as part of a plan to find the treasure of the Count of Monte Cristo hidden there.

On 12 December 1966 the Krays helped Frank Mitchell, " The Mad Axeman ", to escape from Dartmoor Prison ( Frank Mitchell should not be confused with the contemporaneous Frankie Fraser, " Mad Frankie Fraser ", who allied with the Kray's rivals, the Richardson gang ).

The Museum is faced with Portland stone, but the perimeter walls and other parts of the building were built using Haytor granite from Dartmoor in South Devon, transported via the unique Haytor Granite Tramway.

The town is also home to the Museum of Dartmoor Life, which has received notable visitors such as Prince Charles.

* Museum of Dartmoor Life, Oakhampton, Devon, England

Image: Pendon Railway Museum. JPG | Engine shed on the Dartmoor scene.

The former prison site, at the south end of Deer Lodge's Main Street, is now the Old Prison Museum.

* Building 10, also called: L ' ancienne Prison militaire, Former Military Prison, Museum Annex, Annexe du Musée ( constructed in 1842 ) is on the Canadian Register of Historic Places.

The Female Prison, now part of York Castle Museum

The Assize Courts building now houses the York Crown Court, while the former Debtors ' Prison and Female Prison, together with a modern entrance area, are now the Castle Museum.

The south end is near the Tate Modern, the Clink Prison Museum, the Globe Theatre, and the Financial Times and Ofcom buildings.

The Prison Museum Vita Björn () is also near the Kastelholm Castle.

The gallows ' trapdoor and lever were sent to the Prison Service Museum in Rugby, Warwickshire.

" With the possible exception of neighbor, Eastern States Penitentiary, it is the most significant prison building in the United States " says Historic Burlington County Prison Museum Association.

Today, it is on public display as part of a replica death chamber at the Texas Prison Museum in Huntsville, Texas, along with tubing and straps used in Texas ' first execution by lethal injection.

Victoria Barracks, located in Oxford Street, houses the Headquarters Land Command and Headquarters Training Command, as well as the Army Museum of NSW which is housed in the original District Military Prison, constructed in 1800.

The Clink Prison Museum is currently located on the original site in Clink Street, in the basement of a former warehouse.

* Clink Prison Museum

It now sits at the Louisiana Prison Museum in Angola.

1983: Establishment of Tsukigata Prison Museum

Tsukigata Prison Museum

Tsukigata Prison Museum

* Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, the former Security Prison 21, or S-21, under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

The Frøslev Prison Camp Museum ( Frøslevlejrens Museum ) was inaugurated in 1969.

* Website of the Frøslev Prison Camp Museum

The three men were sent to Bambat remand centre at Klong Prem Central Prison, but after plotting an escape attempt were moved to " Maha Chai " the Special Bangkok Metropolitan Prison on Maha Chai Road ( now the Bangkok Corrections Museum ).