Stuck in Irons House (Hale Pa'ahao)

Stuck in Irons House (Hale Pa'ahao) is located on the corner of Prison Street and Waine'e Street in Lahaina on the island of Maui in Hawaii. This visitor attraction is by the west coast of the island and is approximately six and a half miles from Kapalua-West Maui Airport. Members of the public can visit the prison Monday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm.

The site is now mainly a walled in courtyard area with an old house that was the prison with some small cells. There is free parking available in a lot just one block away at Prison and Front Streets. The prison was constructed back in 1852 by convicts to replace the harbor side fort, which they dismantled.

The walls of the prison are approximately eight feet high and features whitewashed cells. Visitors will find out about some of the prisoners held here at the kind of indiscretions that lead to their arrests. For example there is a list of arrests shown for the year 1855 in one of the cells, whilst another cell has a mannequin of a prisoner with a recording of how life was for him in the prison.