Prison & House of Correction

Detained persons had been kept in the military forts, castles etc., and during the Republican period (1649-59) it is well recorded that a few Royalist sympathisers were imprisoned in the castle at Mont Orguel.  The castle remained a convenient and secure place of dentention until the convenience became outmoded - ( too far from the town ).  A purpose built structure was completed in 1699 at the western "entrance" to the town of St. Helier.  A primitive seawall  for the town ended here and the road passing to the west was straddled by the prison building .  The next prison was built near the town's Hospital in Gloucester Street (1811) and remained so until the present Prison was constructed (1975) - once again remote from the town - on heathland at La Moye.