If the prison walls could talk


The Pudu Prison will soon be torn down to make way for development but the absence of the physical structure will not dim the memory of a jail that holds tales both poignant and spine-chilling.

ONE hundred and fifteen years after it was built, Pudu Prison is set to be torn apart to make way for development. The first stage is the demolishing of a wall for a road widening project, but soon there will be little left to show that a prison once stood there.

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