Port Arthur Separate Prison

• Name Port Arthur Separate Prison
• Client Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority
• Location Port Arthur, TAS
• Year 2005 - 2010

The 1849 Separate Prison is chilling evidence of the 19^th century’s moral phobias and experimental initiatives. Based on Quaker principles of penitence brought about by silence and control, it was a strict machine to subdue convicts. Ruined by bushfires in 1895, the Prison has had a series of confusing, ad-hoc conservation measures. The stonework was in poor condition and the small range of original timber and iron elements was overlaid with reconstructions from the 1970s.