Fremantle Prison

Then:
The prison was built after convict transportation to Western Australia began. The prison was built to hold 1000 people but only 60 were held there.

Now:
In the 1980's there were concerns about the conditions in the prison because of riots. The prison closed in 1991.

This cell was in shape and size something like an area cellar, only not so light. It was most intolably dirty; for it was Monday morning; and it had been tenanted by six drunken people, who had been locked up, elsewhere, since Saturday night. But this is little. In our station-houses, men and women are every night confined on the most trivial charges--the word is worth noting--in dungeons, compared with which, those in Newgate, occupied by the most atrocious felons, tried, found guilty, and under sentence of death, are palaces. Let any one who doubts this, compare the two.