HM Prison Boggo Road, August 1965. From the Queensland Heritage Registerid=601033 ) . Boggo Road Gaol No 2 Division was opened in 1903 as the State Prison for Women at Boggo Road South Brisbane. It was built adjacent to a male prison, which was established on the site in 1883. The male prison was later to become No 1 Division. The female prison was constructed in response to a 1887 Parliamentary Inquiry, which recommended that the separate system be introduced, that is a separate cell for each prisoner. The Inquiry also recommended that a female section be established within the Brisbane Gao
HM Prison Boggo Road, August 1965. From the Queensland Heritage Registerid=601033 ) . Boggo Road Gaol No 2 Division was opened in 1903 as the State Prison for Women at Boggo Road South Brisbane. It was built adjacent to a male prison, which was established on the site in 1883. The male prison was later to become No 1 Division. The female prison was constructed in response to a 1887 Parliamentary Inquiry, which recommended that the separate system be introduced, that is a separate cell for each prisoner. The Inquiry also recommended that a female section be established within the Brisbane Gaol. Although in a diluted form, the design was based on ideas of prison planning and reform that were current in England in the nineteenth century. The State Prison for Women, with 80 cells was designed by the Department of Public Works, during an era when it was producing a large number of high quality public buildings. The designer of the women's prison is not known, but likely J S Murdoch and T Pye supervised the design and construction respectively. The complex remained a female prison until 1921, when Brisbane Prison reorganised and divided into three divisions. No 2 Division, the former women's prison, was used for the detention of long term prisoners transferred from St Helena. The female prison was relocated to a building on the southern end of the prison reserve. No 2 Division was extended to include an extensive workshop block on the eastern wall, and a tunnel was constructed, connecting this to the original men's prison, which became No 1 Division. The construction of the workshops enabled the former women's workshop to be converted to a cell block, in 1930. In the mid 1970s No 2 Division became a maximum security prison, with No 1 Division mainly being used for lesser offenders, remand and holding cells. No 1 Division buildings were gradually demolished over a period of time, commencing in 1968. This included the demolition of all of the 1880s gaol and its replace
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