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She strolled home past Fremantle Oval and on to Fothergill Street where the narrow pavement follows the curve of the imposing wall of Fremantle Prison. Beyond the wall was a vast four-storey limestone building. She recalled the brochure she’d read in her doctor’s waiting room saying that the convict barracks were built by the convicts themselves in the eighteen-fifties using limestone quarried on site. Backbreaking work carried out by those unfortunate souls, wrenched from their families for the most trivial of misdemeanours.
The brochure had gone on to explain that the prison had been the primary place of incarceration in Perth ever since, notorious for hangings, floggings, escapes and riots, but now that the inmates were moved to a new maximum security prison in Casuarina, the sit
