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Alipore Central Jail

Ward No. 74, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, India

The Alipore Jail or Alipore Central Jail, also known as Presidency Correctional Home, is a defunct Indian prison in Alipore, Kolkata, where political prisoners were kept under British rule. It also housed the Alipore Jail Press. It is no longer in operation as a jail, having been shut down on 20 February 2019. The jail site has been now developed into an independence museum in memory of the martyrs who were imprisoned and executed there.

Prison data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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