The site costs the Deerubbin Land Council $500,000 annually to maintain. (ABC News: Ursula Malone) Old Parramatta Gaol opened in 1842 as a final bid to build a jail in Sydney's west, after ...

First opened in 1861, by the time it closed its doors in 1990 the Old Castlemaine Gaol had been a home for the insane, a reformatory school for boys, a hospital and a prison for the guilty, as ...

It housed some of Australia’s most infamous criminals before it closed in 2012 — and now ghosts of gangsters past are coming back to haunt the operators of Old Parramatta Gaol.

Program: Sydney Saturday Breakfast Stories from the old Darlinghurst Gaol, site of the National Art School Broadcast Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 11:00pm Friday 11 Nov 2016 at 11:00pm Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 11:00pm ...

Old Dubbo Gaol's most notorious executioner was Robert "Nosey Bob" Howard who acquired his darkly ironic name after losing his proboscis from a horse kick while working as a hansom cab driver.

The Old Castlemaine Gaol, which in recent years has taken on new life as a quirky museum, ... If you can’t go to Sydney’s “Ramses & the Gold of the Pharaohs” exhibition, ...

Ms Deschamps said they want about $2 million for the old lockup, which they bought in a spur of the moment decision 18 years ago. “We were living in Sydney and it was on A Current Affair. The ...

Steven Knight remembers his tiny cell, the "yuck" food, and a NAIDOC Week painting he worked on at Old Parramatta Gaol. He was 25 when he served time and said there were a "lot of good people" but ...