Campbell Town Gaol: prison profile
TAS | Decommissioned | Australian Prison Directory
Source-linked profile checked 2026-11-12. Dates and capacities below describe the stated source period, not necessarily today’s available beds or prisoner population.
About this facility
A colonial gaol and courthouse occupied the site later identified as Campbell Town’s bowling green. The State Library of New South Wales preserves Convict Department lists of people confined in this gaol, confirming imprisonment rather than an inference from the presence of a police station.
Classification: Historic gaol; no modern security category assigned retrospectively.
Campbell Town in Tasmania, not Campbell Street Gaol in Hobart or Campbelltown Gaol in New South Wales.
Contact details
Address: Former bowling-green site, Campbell Town, Tasmania; exact current street address not verified
No current dedicated contact verified.
No dedicated current heritage-site or visitor contact verified. Old brochure contact details are not treated as current.
Opening is qualified as approximate. The final year of surviving lists is not proof of closure.
Opening, closure and history
Opening: c.1828 — Council heritage brochure says gaol and courthouse are believed to have been in use from 1828
Closing: Not yet verified.
1832–1854: Surviving prisoner lists cover 1832–1837, 1841 and 1843–1854; these are record dates, not opening or closure dates
Capacity
Capacity has not yet been independently verified.
Deaths in custody: totals and limitations
No complete facility-level series is established here for suicide, medical or natural causes, homicide, other causes, Aboriginal deaths or combined Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths. Missing data does not mean zero deaths. Selected cases below, where available, are not lifetime or reporting-period totals. “Murder” is a legal conclusion and is not substituted for a source’s classification.
Photograph
No verified licensed photograph is installed in this profile. No stock or generated image is presented as a photograph of this prison.
Sources
Using this profile
Confirm visiting arrangements and current contacts with the corrections department or heritage operator. Heritage visitor contacts are not operational prison contacts. General information only, not legal advice.
This directory includes prison complexes and components and is not a complete Australian operational or historical census. Component capacities must not be added to their parent complex a second time.
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