2008/11/3 Karen Lynn <karenalynn@gmail.com> > 2008/11/3 Chris & Caroline <crhayles@btinternet.com> > >> >> Can anyone enlighten me on there being a detention centre, maybe for >> offenders, in the Gosport area during the 1800s and 1900s. >> And where it would have been situated please. >> Many thanks in anticipation >> >> > Wasn't there a military detention centre at Haslar - long before it was > taken over by HMP to be a young offenders institute and then an immigration > removal centre? > I really must learn not to hit "Reply" until I've finished digging with Google! Apparently there was a Forton Military Prison. It had 244 inmates in the 1861 census ( http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp;jsessionid=8BE60A0E1A0E31F10D9B645B2A504A64?text_id=781370&word=NULL), and was also in use during the American Revolution, judging by the title of one of the articles quoted here: http://www.history.army.mil/reference/revbib/pows.htm Karen