Peter Crown and Patrick Hogan, 1896

42-year-old Peter Crown and 23-year-old Patrick Hogan, from Her Majesty’s Prison, Photographic Record and Description of Prisoners, February 1894 to August 1896, QSA, PRI 1/10.

Collection Queensland State Archives

Plan of the Fortitude Valley police station, c1903

Plan of the Fortitude Valley police station, c1903. Queensland Police Museum

Her Majesty’s Prison for Women opened in October 1903 and was the first purpose built prison for women in Queensland. It replaced the women’s prison at Toowoomba and smaller lock-up facilities at Fortitude Valley. The latter was used to hold prisoners serving sentences of less than one month, those awaiting trial, or those being transferred to Toowoomba. The new Fortitude Valley facility was erected in 1889.

Queensland Police Museum

Stone walls do a prison make: law on the landscape

The imposition of a new and dominant system of law was an important part of the European settlement of Queensland.

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