QGR2/2/2/11

[Draft] Bedfordshire Michaelmas Sessions Quarterly & Annual report of the Visiting Justices: W Stuart junior, William Lynn Smart, William Thornton, C C Beaty Pownall, B H Starey, W B Higgins, Henry Littledale. Includes the following:

Oct 1862

From: 1862 To: 1862

1) Comments on increasingnumber fo prisoners. 2) Comments on literacy and education of prisoners, and numbers from each Petty Sessional division. 3) Comments and statistics of recommittals. 4) Number of juvenile prisoners 49 males 3 females. 5) Committals under Criminal Justice Act. 6) Numbers of prisoners previously committed to the gaol. 7) Expense of the maintenance of prison: £3704.74 [£2706.9.7 previous year]. 8) Daily average number of prisoners 117. 9) Average cost per head per week 12s 5 3/4d. 10) Maintainance awards. 11) Accounts of prison manufactory. 12) Exercise yard has been repaved at a cost of £39.3.0. 13) Alterations to prison wash house and drying rooms completed. 14) Commenst on giving aid to discharged prisoners. 15) 5 additional convicts from Middlesex. 16) Prison regularly visted.

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Stuart, W.,
Pownall, Charles Colyear Beatty,
Starey, Benjamin Helps,
Thornton, William,
Beauford, H W,
Littledale, Henry,
Smart, William Lynn

BEDFORD, Middlesex, Assizes, gaol, House of Correction, general justices of the peace, crime statistics, crime, imprisonment, punishment, chaplains, prison governors, Quarter Sessions, Petty Sessions, felony, warden, prison warden, juvenile delinquency, CHILDREN, laundries