article_snippet: Western Australia's only World Heritage-listed building has been transformed into a youth hostel where worldly travellers can spend a night behind bars in the cells previously occupied by hardened criminals.
article_snippet: ‘one of the most unique accommodation options in the country’.
article_snippet: A double bunk fits perfectly in this rather luxurious cell formerly occupied by law-breaking women .
article_snippet: A tribute of sorts on the wall honouring Estelle Williams, an escapee who climbed onto the roof and then perimeter wall to get out in 1931 .
article_snippet: The walls, floors, windows and bars in some case retain the feeling of a place where you could be locked in with the key thrown away, but additional facilities have also been added to bring the hostel in line with the hostel competitors.
article_snippet: For those who don't like the idea of being behind bars, the Victorian-style guards’ cottages outside the front gates are a more luxurious option.
article_snippet: The women once locked away in this wing would have usually ‘offended the good order’ of society, with the most common offences including 'vagrancy, loitering in public places, drunkenness, obscenity, soliciting, running a brothel, being idle or having no visible means of support'.
highlights_snippet: The youth hostel has been renovated to be 'as prison-like as it is comfortable' 