The Old Jail in Saint Ann's Bay is said to have been the very first prison in Jamaica.[1] Built as a fort c. 1750, it was declared useless in 1795 as the sea was encroaching.[2] It was then converted into a jail and house of correction.[2] The jail had solitary cells, a treadmill, a separate room for lunatics, a room for debtors, a 'hospital', and a jailers' quarters.[2] Many slaves died there.[1]
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