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Australian prisons are built in a similar fashion. Australia used to be England’s penal colony and they say that many now highly reputable families here are descendants of those first European immigrants. A joker thus felt moved to comment recently:
“The reason Australian prisons boast such great locations and look like castles is that they,
like the old castles in Europe, are the family seats of today’s generation.”
Internment camp diary, April-August 1915, from:
Personal papers of prisoners interned during World War I, mainly diaries, notes and correspondence, 1915 -1919
MLMSS 261/Box 6/Item 56
Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW
Our “hotel”, in its outline, looks a bit like our Teutonia Club in Singapore. You first enter a big hall, stretching the length of the building, which will serve as our dining room and in the evening as our lounge. Attached to the hall are two wings that house the cells, both on the ground floor and on a second level, something like this: [drawing]