Stirling

Old Town Jail

For 400 years, Stirling's prisoners had been kept in the old Tollbooth Jail - a wretched, overcrowded, stinking and disease-ridden place - where justice comprised public floggings, beatings, hangings and banishment.

However, by Victorian times, prison reformers demanded improvements - they preferred to focus on moral rather than physical correction.

The new purpose built Stirling Old Town Jail opened in 1847; but were conditions really any better for prisoners?

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