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Article: Releasing potential of ex-prison; Plans to 'cell' jail as tourist attraction.(News)
- Article from:
- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2002
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Byline: GEOFF HILL
IN the next version of the Belfast edition of Monopoly, all the cards will read Go to Jail. For the 1846 Crumlin Road Gaol, which has fallen into disuse now that there are no criminals in Northern Ireland, may soon be reborn as a tourist attraction.
And if you think that sounds unlikely, you should have been at a conference in the city yesterday on the future of the jail, listening to Jim Arnold.
Thirty years ...