months in the prison in 1870-71 for assault and was held there during his committal trial for murder in 1880. It was also in Beechworth Prison that Kelly's mother, Ellen and two associates of the Kelly family served sentences in the late 1870s for the attempted murder of Constable Alexander Fitzpatrick. It was this incident and the resulting convictions which are credited as being the catalyst for the so-called Kelly Outbreak. Beechworth Gaol is further associated with Kelly as the place where twenty suspected Kelly sympathisers were held in 1879 in an attempt to limit support to the Kelly gang. The iron gates were installed at this time as it was feared that there might be an attempt to break the sympathisers out of the prison. The bushranger Harry Power was also imprisoned here. It was with Power that Kelly became involved in bushranging as a teenager. It was information supplied to the police by Jack Lloyd, not Ned Kelly as is sometimes thought, that eventuated in Power's arrest. Beechworth Prison is architecturally significant as an outstanding example of a panopticon prison, of which nine erected in Victoria, and as one of only two which continue to operate as prisons. Its architecture epitomises the severely simple Classical style of nineteenth-century prisons commissioned by the Public Works Department. Notable prisoners Joe Byrne Steve Hart Ned Kelly Aaron Sherritt Carl Williams Executions References 1864 establishments in Australia 2004 disestablishments in Australia Beechworth Beechworth Museums in Victoria (Australia) Prison museums in Australia