[1][2] The prison provided its own hospital wing, surgery, dispensary, cookhouse, furnace, clothing store and school.
This allowed the provision of heating via hot water pipes and earned it the nickname of the Cranmore Hotel.
Other forms of male labour included shoemaking, tailoring, carpentry, glazing, and painting, whilst female inmates were employed to sew, knit and wash clothes.
[1] The last person overall to be hanged within the prison was a Mr. Doherty of Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim in 1903, who was convicted of murdering his son.
They then forced the nightwatchman to turn over the keys to the cells and they released Carty who was taken away in a waiting motor car.
[1][2][8][9] The closure of the prison was welcomed by councillors of Sligo Corporation as they felt it was a symbol of slavery and the conquest of Ireland.