History
Blackgate Penitentiary is located on a small island in Gotham Bay, Gotham City. The construction of the original prison was stated in the 1880s, after the Religion of Crime was driven out of Blackgate Isle. In the late 1980s, Blackgate Prison was condemned by Amnesty International and forced to shut down.[1] When it eventually re-opened, it was officially known as "Blackgate Penitentiary".
Unlike Arkham Asylum, Blackgate is where non-insane criminals such as David Cain, Monsoon, Ernie Chubb, The KGBeast, Catman, and various henchmen, mobsters, and mafia bosses are incarcerated when captured. There are instances where inmates from Arkham Asylum are temporarily moved to Blackgate, such as when Bane destroyed the original Arkham building.[2] All of the Arkham inmates were incarcerated in Blackgate until the new Arkham structure was built and Arkham re-opened.[3][4]
Eventually, a group of notorious prisoners tried to escape from Blackgate. They were Cluemaster, Steeljacket, Ratcatcher, The Trigger Twins, Dragoncat, Gunhawk, Czonka (The Baffler), Actuary, and although they were at first unsuccesful, they eventually escaped during the earthquake that razed Gotham. As a result, some of the prison's walls broke down and the tremor opened up a land bridge to Gotham. This allowed the majority of the inmates of Blackgate to escape, although many of them were defeated by the Batman before they could leave. They were all eventually re-incarcerated or put down while violently evading arrest.
Residents
Inmates
- Actuary
- Bane
- Black Spider
- Matches Malone
- Calendar Man
- Catman
- Rhino
- Clayface (Basil Karlo)
- Clayface (Matt Hagen)
- Cluemaster
- Cypher
- Dalton Perry
- David Cain
- The Electrocutioner
- Ernie Chubb
- Eustace Marker
- Faceless
- Firebug
- Firefly
- The Great White Shark
- Henry Etchison
- Jared Manx
- The KGBeast
- Lady Spellbinder
- Monsoon
- Mortimer Kadaver
- Mister Zsasz
- The Penguin
- The Polka Dot Man
- Professor Ivo [5]
- The Ratcatcher
- Raya Vestri
- Rupert Thorne
- Sasha Bordeaux
- Steeljacket
- The Ten-Eyed Man
- Czonk
- Tony Zucco
- The Trigger Twins
- Two-Face
- The Ventriloquist
- Wrath II
Trivia
- The Penguin, Firefly, Rupert Thorne, The Joker, Zsasz, Two-Face, Clayface, the Calendar Man, and The Ventriloquist are the only criminals that have done time in both Arkham Asylum and Blackgate.
