{{Short description, None This is an incomplete list of Jails and prisons listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Included are:

Alabama

Houston Jail The Houston Jail is a historic jail building in Houston, Alabama, Houston, Winston County, Alabama. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 5, 1975. History The building is the only known surviving Log cabin, log jail in ...

, Houston, Alabama, NRHP listed *

Old Jail (Gordo, Alabama) The Old Jail, also known as the Gordo Jail and Mayor's Office, is a historic former jail and office building in Gordo, Pickens County, Alabama. ''See also:'' The two-story brick structure was completed in 1914. It originally contained two jail ...

, Gordo, Alabama, NRHP listed * Coosa County Jail, Rockford, Alabama, NRHP listed

Connecticut

* Fairfield County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Bridgeport, Connecticut

Florida

Old Hamilton County Jail The Old Hamilton County Jail is a historic building at 501 Northeast 1st Avenue, Jasper, Florida, United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States f ...

, listed on the NRHP in Jasper, Florida *

Old St. Johns County Jail The Old Jail (also known as Authentic Old Jail) is a historic jail in St. Augustine, Florida. It is located at 167 San Marco Avenue. On August 27, 1987, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The St. Johns County Jail now ...

, listed on the NRHP in St. Augustine, Florida *

Old Taylor County Jail The Old Taylor County Jail is a historic jail in Perry, Florida, located on the 400 block of North Washington Street. It was built in 1912 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It was deemed significant as the old ...

, listed on the NRHP in Perry, Florida

Georgia

Old Jail (Washington, Georgia) The Old Jail, also known as the Old Wilkes County Jail, located at 15 Court Street in Washington, Georgia was built in 1891. It was built by the McDonald Brothers Company of Louisville. The Old Jail has been on the list of National Register of His ...

, listed on the NRHP in Wilkes County *

Quitman County Courthouse and Old Jail The Quitman County Courthouse and Old Jail is a historic building in Georgetown, Quitman County, Georgia, Georgetown, Georgia. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The listing includes the Old Quitman County Jail th ...

, listed on the NRHP in Georgetown * Rockdale County Jail in Conyers, Georgia, listed on the NRHP in Rockdale County

Illinois

Franklin County Jail (Illinois) The Franklin County Jail, located at 209 W. Main St. in Benton, is the former county jail of Franklin County, Illinois. The jail was built in 1905–06 to replace the county's previous jail, which was built in the 1840s after the county seat mov ...

, listed on the NRHP in Illinois

Iowa

Dubuque County Jail The Dubuque County Jail is a historic building at 36 East 8th Street in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. Completed in 1858, the jail is an example of the uncommon Egyptian Revival style. It is architecturally a highly original work of John F. Rague, ...

, listed on the NRHP in Iowa *

Old Jail (Muscatine, Iowa) The Old Jail is an historic building located in Muscatine, Iowa, United States. The building was built in 1857 across the street from the Muscatine County Courthouse. It replaced the original county jail that had been built in 1839. It was rep ...

, listed on the NRHP in Iowa *

Pottawattamie County Jail The Pottawattamie County Jail, also known as 'Squirrel Cage Jail' in Council Bluffs, Iowa, United States was built in 1885 and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The building is a Squirrel Cage Jail, also known as ...

, listed on the NRHP in Iowa * Scott County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Iowa

Louisiana

Beauregard Parish Jail Beauregard Parish Jail is a former jailhouse in DeRidder, Louisiana built in 1914 in the Gothic Revival architecture style. It is referred to as the Gothic jail or the Hanging jail. The jail is owned by the Beauregard Parish Police Jury. The Beaur ...

Old St. Helena Parish Jail The Old St. Helena Parish Jail, adjacent to the courthouse square in Greensburg in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, was built in about 1855 and is one of the oldest structures in the parish. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places ...

, in Greensburg

Massachusetts

* Charles Street Jail, listed on the NRHP in Boston, Massachusetts (North) *

Old Jail (Barnstable, Massachusetts) Barnstable's Old Gaol is a historic colonial jail in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Built 1690, it is the oldest wooden jail in the United States of America. The jail was built by order of the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colony courts. It ser ...

, listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts

Minnesota

Aitkin County Courthouse and Jail The Aitkin County Courthouse and Jail, in Aitkin, Minnesota, United States, serves as the county seat of Aitkin County. The building is actually the second courthouse for the county. The first courthouse was built in 1888, but in 1920, a grand j ...

, in Aitkin *

Crow Wing County Courthouse and Jail The Crow Wing Historic County Courthouse, in Brainerd, Minnesota, United States, is a Beaux-Arts courthouse built in 1920. The building, along with its adjoining jail, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Re ...

, in Brainerd *

Elizabeth Village Hall and Jail Elizabeth Village Hall and Jail is the seat of the local government and a historic building located in Elizabeth, Minnesota, United States. Completed in 1898, the two-story brick structure replaced a single-story wood-frame structure that was later ...

, in Elizabeth *

Fillmore County Jail and Carriage House Fillmore may refer to: Places Canada * Fillmore, Saskatchewan * Rural Municipality of Fillmore No. 96, Saskatchewan United States * Fillmore, California * Fillmore District, San Francisco, California * Fillmore, Louisiana * Fillmore, Illinoi ...

, in Preston *

Houston County Courthouse and Jail The Houston County Courthouse and Jail, located at 304 Marshall Street South in Caledonia, Minnesota, Caledonia, Houston County, Minnesota, Houston County in the United States, U.S. state of Minnesota, consists of a Romanesque architecture, Romanes ...

, in Caledonia *

Le Sueur County Courthouse and Jail The Le Sueur County Courthouse and Jail are government buildings in Le Center, Minnesota, United States. They were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. The 1896 courthouse and 1914 jail were nominated to the Register for bei ...

, in Le Center *

Lincoln County Courthouse and Jail Lincoln most commonly refers to: * Lincoln (president), Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the sixteenth president of the United States * Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England * Lincoln, Nebraska, the capital of Neb ...

, in Ivanhoe *

Minnesota Home School for Girls The Minnesota Home School for Girls was a reformatory in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States. It was Minnesota's first single-sex reformatory for girls from its establishment in 1911 to 1967, when it switched to a coeducational model and shorte ...

, in Sauk Centre * Minnesota State Reformatory for Men Historic District, in St. Cloud * Minnesota State Training School, in Red Wing * Minnesota Territorial Prison, in Stillwater (demolished and delisted) *

Nicollet County Courthouse and Jail The Nicollet County Courthouse and Jail are historic governmental buildings located at 501 South Minnesota Avenue in St. Peter, Minnesota, United States. The courthouse was designed in a Romanesque Revival architecture, Romanesque Revival style of ...

, in St. Peter * Odessa Jail, in Odessa *

Park Rapids Jail A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are green spaces set aside for recreation inside towns and cities. N ...

, in Park Rapids *

Renville County Courthouse and Jail The Renville County Courthouse and Jail is a historic building located at 500 East DePue Avenue in Olivia, Minnesota, United States; the seat of Renville County, Minnesota, Renville County. It was constructed in 1902. The first courthouse in Ren ...

, in Olivia * Rice County Courthouse and Jail, in Faribault * Rock County Courthouse and Jail, in Luverne *

Sibley County Courthouse and Sheriff's Residence and Jail The Sibley County Courthouse and Sheriff's Residence and Jail are two adjacent government buildings in Gaylord, Minnesota, United States. They were built in 1916 and serve as the seat of government for Sibley County, Minnesota, Sibley County. A ...

, in Gaylord * State Prison Historic District, in Bayport *

Stearns County Courthouse and Jail Stearns may refer to: Places in the United States *Stearns, Kentucky *Stearns, Wisconsin *Stearns County, Minnesota *Northern Star Council, Stearns Scout Camp *Stearns Wharf, Santa Barbara, California Others *Stearns (automobile) *Stearns (crater ...

, in St. Cloud (jail demolished) * Todd County Courthouse, Sheriff's House, and Jail, in Long Prairie (jail demolished) * Walters Jail, in Walters

Montana

* Fallon County Jail, in Baker * Belt Jail, listed on the NRHP in Belt, Montana * Gallatin County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Bozeman, Montana * Ismay Jail, in Custer County * Lodge Grass City Jail, listed on the NRHP in Lodge Grass, Montana *

Granite County Jail The Granite County Jail, located on Kearney St. in Philipsburg in Granite County, Montana, was built in 1896. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is a red brick building which was still in use as a jail in 1980 ...

, listed on the NRHP in Philipsburg, Montana * Square Butte Jail, listed on the NRHP in Square Butte, Montana *

Sanders County Jail The Sanders County Jail is a historic jail built in 1907 in Thompson Falls in Sanders County, Montana. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. It was built by contractors Christian & Gobelet for $5,000 and is a two-st ...

, listed on the NRHP in Thompson Falls, Montana *

Troy Jail The Troy Jail is a historic jail building listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Troy, Montana Troy is a city in Lincoln County, Montana, United States. The population was 797 at the 2020 census. It lies at the lowest elevation ...

, in Lincoln County

Oregon

* Clatsop County Jail (Old), listed on the NRHP in Astoria, Oregon

South Carolina

Florence Stockade The Florence Stockade, also known as The Stockade or the Confederate States Military Prison at Florence, was a Confederate States of America, Confederate prisoner-of-war camp located on the outskirts of Florence, South Carolina, during the Ameri ...

, in Florence County *

South Carolina Penitentiary The South Carolina Penitentiary (renamed the Central Correctional Institution in 1965) was the state of South Carolina's first prison. Completed in 1867, the South Carolina Penitentiary served as the primary state prison for nearly 130 years unti ...

, former listing (demolished) *

Oconee County Cage The Oconee County Cage is a former jail on wheels that is located at Browns Square Drive outside of the Oconee Heritage Center in Walhalla, South Carolina, USA in Oconee County. At the time of its listing, it was located on Church Street at the Oc ...

, in Walhalla * Oconee County Jail, former listing (demolished)

Tennessee

Old Scott County Jail The Old Scott County Jail is a historic former county jail at 125 West 2nd Street in Waldron, Arkansas. It is currently home to the Scott County Historical and Genealogical Society. The building is a two-story structure, built of fieldstone cover ...

, listed on the NRHP in Huntsville, Tennessee *

Old Fentress County Jail Old or OLD may refer to: Places *Old, Baranya, Hungary *Old, Northamptonshire, England *Old Street station, a railway and tube station in London (station code OLD) *OLD, IATA code for Old Town Municipal Airport and Seaplane Base, Old Town, Mai ...

, listed on the NRHP in Jamestown, Tennessee *

Lawrence County Jail Lawrence may refer to: Education Colleges and universities * Lawrence Technological University, a university in Southfield, Michigan, United States * Lawrence University, a liberal arts university in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States Preparator ...

, listed on the NRHP in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee * Old Bedford County Jail, in Shelbyville * Claiborne County Jail, in Tazewell * Franklin County Jail (Tennessee), listed on the NRHP in Winchester, Tennessee

Texas

* Austin County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Bellville, Texas * Bowie County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Boston, Texas *

Old Cameron County Jail Old or OLD may refer to: Places *Old, Baranya, Hungary *Old, Northamptonshire, England *Old Street station, a railway and tube station in London (station code OLD) *OLD, IATA code for Old Town Municipal Airport and Seaplane Base, Old Town, Mai ...

, listed on the NRHP in Brownsville, Texas * Brown County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Brownwood, Texas * Bosque County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Meridian, Texas * Anderson County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Palestine, Texas * Coke County Jail, listed on the NRHP in Robert Lee, Texas

Virginia

* Old Fauquier County Jail, in Warrenton

Wisconsin

* Kenosha County Courthouse and Jail, in Kenosha *

Marquette County Courthouse and Marquette County Sheriff's Office and Jail The Marquette County Courthouse and Marquette County Sheriff's Office and Jail is located in Montello, Wisconsin. In 1982, the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Description The current courthouse was constructed in 1918 ...

, in Montello *

New Glarus Town Hall The New Glarus Town Hall in New Glarus, Wisconsin, was built in 1886 to house both the town hall and a meeting place for the Ancient Order of United Workmen. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. History The first settl ...

, in Green County * Pepin County Courthouse and Jail, in Durand

Wyoming

* Clearmont Jail, in Sheridan County