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{{Infobox Prison<br />
| prison_name = Alipore Jail<br />
| former_name = Old Alipore Jail<br />
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| location = [[Alipore]], [[Kolkata]]<br />
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| status = Open<br />
| classification = Maximum<br />
| capacity = 2000<br />
| opened = {{start date and age|1864}}<ref>[http://wbcorrectionalservices.gov.in/history_heritage.html Presidency Correctional Home]</ref><br />
| closed =<br />
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[[File:The Alipore Gaol, Calcutta; Illustrated London News, 1870.jpg|thumb|The Alipore Gaol, Calcutta; in 1870]]<br />
The '''Alipore Jail''' or '''Alipore Central Jail''', also known as '''Presidency Correctional Home''', is a prison in [[Alipore]], [[Kolkata]], where political prisoners were kept under [[British rule]], among them [[Subhas Chandra Bose]]. It is still in operation.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/66042/this-jailhouse-has-rich-past.html|title=This jailhouse has a rich past|work=Deccan Chronicle}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3597316.stm|title=Children die in copycat hangings|date=25 August 2004|work=BBC News}}</ref> It also houses the [[Alipore Jail Press]].<br />
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==Notable inmates==<br />
* [[Sri Aurobindo]] (May 1908 – May 1909), imprisoned after the [[Alipore bomb case]]. During his stay he wrote a series of articles in Bengali in the journal ''Suprabhat'', later published as ''Tales of Prison life''. He later said, "I have spoken of a year's imprisonment. It would have been more appropriate to speak of a year's living in an ashram or a hermitage. The only result of the wrath of the British Government was that I found God." <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sriaurobindosociety.org.in/sriauro/aurolif1.htm#alipore|title=The Prison-Cell Of Alipore|publisher=Sri Aurobindo Society|access-date=4 December 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130091354/http://sriaurobindosociety.org.in/sriauro/aurolif1.htm#alipore|archive-date=30 November 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><br />
* [[Dudu Miyan]] (1857–61)<br />
* [[Subhas Chandra Bose]]<br />
* [[K. Kamaraj]] (1930)<br />
* [[Ramakrishna Biswas]]<br />
* [[Bidhan Chandra Roy]] (1930)<br />
* [[Charu Mazumdar]]<br />
* [[Pramod Ranjan Choudhury]] (1926)<br />
* [[Jack Preger|Dr. Jack Preger, MBE]] (1981)<br />
* [[P. Kakkan]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110728173024/http://www.westbengalcorrectionalservices.org/history_martyrs.html Martyrs of Indian Freedom]<br />
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