Editing HM Prison Dartmoor (section)

===1815 closure, and reopening ===
[[File:Dartmoor Prison entrance.jpg|right|thumb|The main gates of Dartmoor Prison host the inscription ''Parcere Subiectis'' (Trans: Spare the Vanquished) from Virgil's ''[[Aeneid]]''.]]
After all American and French prisoners had been released,  and repatriated, the gaol on Dartmoor was left unused for 35 years until 1850. Work then began to rebuild and recommission the prison for civilian convicts. It reopened in 1851. The POW remains that had been originally buried on the moor were exhumed and re-interred in two cemeteries behind the prison when the prison farm was established in about 1852.
During the [[First World War]] in 1917, criminals were removed from the gaol when it was converted into a Home Office Work Centre for [[conscientious objectors]] granted release from other prisons. The cells were left unlocked, inmates wore their own clothes and could go outside to visit the village in their off-duty time.<ref name="History of Dartmoor Prison"/>