Hong Kong Correctional Services Museum

Aberdeen & South Hong Kong Island


Mock cells, gallows and flogging stands are the gruesome draws at this museum, about 500m southeast of Stanley Village Rd, which traces the history of jails, prisons and other forms of incarceration in Hong Kong.


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