The Bloody, Bloody Hangings of Ellen Thomson and John Harrison
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) There are a couple of points I always like to make on my 'Hangman's Walk' cemeter...
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A Suffragette Recalls Boggo Road Gaol
Article by Christopher Dawson, MPHA (Qld) The following article about a female prisoner recalling her time inside Boggo Road is adapted...
Condemned Women of the Female Division
Not all the women held at Boggo Road were on short sentences. Some were sent there to die. The only Queensland woman ever actually hanged ...
1937: A Visit to the Women’s Prison
The following account of a visit to the small Female Division prison off Annerley Road is adapted from an article in the Telegraph , 13 Fe...
Life in the 1903 Women's Prison
Upon arrival at Boggo Road, new prisoners had to change out of their street clothes and take a hot bath. Their clothes were then searched,...
Women's Prisons at Boggo Road 1921-82
In 1921 the female inmates of Boggo Road were moved from their brick cellblocks (which afterwards became No.2 Division) to a timber do...
The Modern Prison for Women 1982-99
A new prison for women opened on the Boggo Road reserve in 1982. The number of female inmates had been increasing in recent years (recept...
Early Prisons for Women in Colonial Queensland
There have been prisons for women in Queensland since the convict era. These have generally been smaller - and sometimes more makeshift - t...
Inmates of the 1903 Prison
Most of the early female inmates at Boggo Road have been described as 'victims of adverse circumstance'. Many were prostitutes, be...
1903-21: A New Prison for Women
The No.2 Division of Boggo Road, which is now the only part of the prison left standing, started life in October 1903 as 'HM Prison for...
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