 At its completion , the prison occupied an entire city block , and included exercise yards , a hospital in one of the yards , a chapel , a bath house and staff accommodation . A house for the chief warders was built on the corner of Franklin and Russell streets , and 17 homes were built for gaolers on Swanston street in 1860 . Artefacts recovered from the area indicate that even the gaolers and their families lived within the gaol walls in the 1850s and 1860s . 
