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Old Broome Lockup Gallery :: Home
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Excerpted from the website:
- :: History ::
- Built in 1895, the Old Broome lockup was mainly used to hold prisoners awaiting trial, deportation or disorderly behaviour. The most common offences for aboriginal prisoners were the killing of livestock or absconding from so called 'work contracts' on pastoral stations and Pearling Boats. Being found guilty of serious offences or short term sentences could have seen prisoners in chains and tied up to the closest tree. Unfortunately for prisoners taken from the Kimberley area, if found not guilty they faced a long walk of hundreds of miles to return to their land and people.
