Bedfordshire Archives Service Catalogue
  • Reference
    QGR2/3/1/10
  • Title
    Annual Report of the Visiting Justices to the Gaol and House of Correction Michaelmas Sessions 1863. W Stuart junior, William Lynn Smart, W B Higgins, Montagu Burgoyne, Campion, Harry Thornton, H W Beauford, Henry Littledale, C C Beaty Pownall, R G Chalk. Includes the following:
  • Date free text
    October 1863
  • Production date
    From: 1863 To: 1863
  • Scope and Content
    1) Numbers of prisoners committed. 2)Tables of prisoners committed from each Petty Sessions District with cmments on numbers of and education. 3) Table giving number of committments and percentage of recommittments for each year from 1850 - 1863. 4) 54 Juvenile prisoners, 7 sent to reformatory schoold. 5) 78 males 12 females committed under the Criminal Justice Act, a decrease of 10 from the previous year. 6) The numer of prisoners previously committed to any Gaol were asfollows: once - 90, twice - 40, Thrice - 20, four times - 14, five times - 7, five - seven times - 9, seven to ten times - 8, above 10 times - 6. 7) Total expense for the maintenance of the prison for the year is £4104.12.10 an increase of £400.5.6. 8) Daily average number of prisoners 182. 9) Average cost per head per week 8s 7 1/2 d, a decrease of 3s 10 1/2d. 10) Abstract of maintenance accounts. 11) Accounts of the prison manufactory. 12) The Visiting Justices have further to report as follows: i) that they have received notice from the County of Middlesex to determine the contact for the reception of 100 convicts from that County on 1st November next. ii) That with the approval of the Secretary of State for the Home Department thy have entered into a contract wth the Directors of COnvict Prisons for the reception of 70 Government prisoners under orders of penal servitude from and after 1st November next. ii) some detailed alterations in the arrangement of the prison have become necessary. To Warden Maile has been assigned the duty of instructing the prisoners and assisting in the office work in addition to his ordinary duties at his present salary of £62 subject to a graduated scale of rise from length of service until it shall reach £80 at the end of five years from Christmas next. Warders Sewell and Toll having resigned the Visiting Justices have appointed as Wardens; Tom Hurst, William Wright, John Allen Howell, the latter beingan additional warder in consequence of the reception of Government Prisoners. iv) Death of 3 prisoners, 1 from the county, 2 from the Borough - Coroners Inquests were held in each case and verdicts returned that the prisoenrs severally died from natural causes.
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