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Cardiff Gaol was a prison located on St. Marys Street, Cardiff.
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Gaols 1829-1878 "The County Gaol belonged to the Crown, and was the responsibility of the sheriff, although it was run and financed by the Quarter Sessions. From medieval times until after the Act of Union 1536, the Black Tower of Cardiff Castle, Glamorgan, housed prisoners. In the 17th century, the county gaol was established in High Street, Cardiff. From about 1770, improvements to conditions in the gaol were carried out. By 1814, the gaol was deemed insufficient and a new gaol was built in 1832-1833, in the Spital Field, Whitmore Lane (later called Custom House Street) .................. After the Prisons Act 1877, responsibility for the Gaol and House of Correction was transferred to the Home Office."[1]