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HM Prison Belfast, also known as Crumlin Road Gaol, is a former prison situated on the Crumlin Road in north Belfast, Northern Ireland. Since 1996 it is the only remaining Victorian era former prison in Northern Ireland.
The prison and its inmates were involved in such events as the 1981 hunger strike. The prison was closed in 2000 and demolition began on 30 October 2006, but on 18 April 2013 it was announced by the Northern Ireland Executive that the remaining buildings would be redeveloped into a peace centre, [ 2 ] however these plans were later abandoned.
List of defunct prisons in Northern Ireland. Pages in category "Defunct prisons in Northern Ireland" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Economy Minister Conor Murphy was once held in the Crumlin Road Gaol accused of Provisional IRA membership.
A modern Category A prison housing adult male long-term sentenced and remand prisoners. Various units in the establishment also accommodate Category B and C prisoners. The prison also houses a working-out unit, where prisoners can leave the prison for short periods under direct supervision, and Burren House, a detachment of Maghaberry on Crumlin Road, Belfast, serves as a Category D unit.
18 February: The UVF detonated a small bomb in the corridor of Crumlin Road courthouse following an earlier explosion at Crumlin Road Prison, Belfast, during the trial of several loyalists (including John McKeague) associated with the UVF, UPV, and Ulster Constitution Defence Committee (UCDC) charged with bomb attacks the previous year. [32]
19 April – A female prison officer is shot dead and three colleagues are injured in an IRA gun and grenade attack outside Armagh women's prison. [1] 19 April – A British Army school cadet officer is shot dead by an IRA sniper in Belfast. [1] 7 June – European Parliament election, the first direct election to the European Parliament.
Apart from time on remand spent in Crumlin Road Prison, Stone spent all of his sentence in HM Prison Maze. Stone was released under the Good Friday Agreement after serving 13 years. Author and journalist Martin Dillon interviewed Stone in prison and published a book about him in 1992, Stone Cold: The True Story of Michael Stone and the Milltown ...