HMP Dartmoor
Her Majesty's Prison Dartmoor is one of the oldest and best known prisons in the UK . It is located at Princetown , Dartmoor .
history
Dartmoor was designed as a prisoner of war camp in 1805, when England was at war with Napoleonic France. The first prisoners were interned in 1809, followed by prisoners from the Anglo-American War from 1812 . In 1932 there was a prisoner uprising due to the prison conditions, in which around 50 prisoners brought parts of the prison under their control. Originally Dartmoor was a maximum security prison, today only prisoners of the low security category C are accommodated there. In 2015, the Justice Department announced that the prison would be closed within the next 10 years. A museum is attached to the prison.
In pop culture
In English detective stories, especially about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Miss Marple , the prison is often mentioned, or rather longer plot sections are set there. In Hunt for Music Boxes , an inmate smuggles messages to his accomplice from prison. An escaped inmate from Dartmoor appears in The Secret of Sittaford . In an episode by Simon Templar , the protagonist played by Roger Moore is smuggled into Dartmoor. In the James Bond film With Love from Moscow , the hit man Grant is a former inmate.
Known former inmates
- Michael Davitt (1846–1906), Irish independence activist
- John Rodker (1894–1955), English writer and conscientious objector
- Moondyne Joe (around 1826–1900), Australian bus hanger
- Éamon de Valera (1882–1975), Irish freedom fighter and later president
- John George Haigh (1909-1949), serial killer
literature
- Ministry of Justice pages on Dartmoor
- Dartmoor Prison Museum
- HMP Dartmoor - HM Inspectorate of Prisons Reports
Coordinates: 50 ° 32'58.1 " N , 3 ° 59'46.8" W.