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Abandoned Prison walk and talk

Core facts

• Opened: 1844

• Closed: 2013

• Type: Victorian local prison

• System used: Separate System (strict isolation)

Structure

• Star-shaped layout for maximum surveillance

• Multiple cell wings radiating from a central hub

• Narrow landings, iron staircases, heavy cell doors

• Chapel designed so prisoners could not see each other

Famous inmate

• Oscar Wilde

• Imprisoned: 1895–1897

• Cell C.2.2

• Convicted of “gross indecency”

• Wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol after release

Executions

• Public executions carried out inside the prison walls

• Last execution at Reading Gaol: 1913

• Execution method: hanging

• Executions stopped nationwide in prisons after 1964 (UK)

Conditions

• Prisoners kept in silence

• Hooded when outside cells

• Minimal human contact

• Punishments included bread-and-water diets and solitary confinement

Can't promise this I be the last prison post, but I hope you enjoy it.

#prison #eerie #haunted #fyp #freshlemon8

2025/12/28 Edited to

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Prisons are strange places very atmospheric during the day. I don't think I could walk around an empty one, day or night lol xx

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