Ottawa: A Visitor Might Be Sentenced to Overnight in Jail

In Ottawa, there is a place where you don't have to commit a crime to be sentenced and to do your time in jail, and the Hi-Ottawa Jail Hostel is the place. It is specially reserved for tourist and people visiting Ottawa.

But before we go any further and try to understand how that is possible, let's look little back then when all of this started. In 1842, the basement of the city's new courthouse (situated on a land donated by the prominent Nicholas Sparks) became the new Carleton County Gaol

Then, in 1862, the Carleton County Gaol was rebuild to comply with the principles of 19^th Carleton County Gaol continues to receive real prisoners who committed real crime or infringement to the enforced law and contributed to reduce crime by establishing law and order.

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Anyway, the Carleton County Gaol was closed in 1972. The prisoners that were there at the time were transferred to the new Ottawa-Carleton Regional Detention Center located in Blackburn Hamlet.

One year later, opened the Hi-Ottawa Jail Hostel. Along with the opining of the Carleton County Gaol Heritage Centre in 2007, the Hi-Ottawa Jail Hostel serve as a hostel and as an attraction, museum or historic center. So it is not quite a real jail and if you decided to stay in Hi-Ottawa Jail Hostel while visiting Ottawa, you might be sentenced to some overnight in the "weirdest" but fun to visit hostel that ever existed in North America.

You might also find yourself spending some time on a guided tour through the multiple information panels, photos, hands on activities, actual handcuffs, restraints, the "table of drops" and event a letter written by a former inmate on a toilet paper. Strange, isn't it?

If you ever visit Ottawa, try the experience, the Hi-Ottawa Jail Hostel is located in downtown close to many other attraction center (Museum, Parliament Hill, Shopping mall, etc).
Sometime the weirdest might be the more exciting and fun.