An Account of All the Gaols, Houses of Corrections or Penitentiaries..
Prisons in England and Wales for the Year 1818 [Prisons]. [Great Britain]. [House of Commons]. An Account of All the Gaols, Houses of Corrections or Penitentiaries, In the United Kingdom; Specifying, The Number of Persons Committed to Each, And the Greatest Number of Prisoners Confined in Each, At Any Period of the Year 1818; Distinguishing Tried from Untried, Males from Females; Those Under the Age of Seventeen from Those Above It; Also Under What Jurisdiction and Superintendence Each Prison is Placed; What Number of Prisoners Each is Calculated to Contain; Into What Number of Separate Classes or Departments It is Divided, And How Far the Number of Those Divisions Can, Without Great Inconvenience or Expense be Increased:-Also, An Account of All Allowances of Food, Money, Or Clothing Made to Prisoners; Of the Value of Labour Done, And the Application Thereof; And Generally of the Subsisting Regulations for the Discipline and Government of Each Prison, And in What Instances Those Regulations Have Been Deviated From in the Course of the Year 1818; And What Has Been the Occasion of Such Deviation, And Under What Authority It Has Been Allowed in All Such Prisons Respectively; As Far as Relates to England and Wales. [London]: Ordered, By the House of Commons, To be Printed, 16 March 1819. 63, [1] pp. Folio (13" x 7-3/4"). Recent quarter cloth over marbled boards, printed paper label to front board, endpapers added. Boards very slightly bowed, light fading and negligible light soiling to spine. Light toning to interior, trimming to fore-edge with minor loss to text or page numbers in places but no loss to legibility, negligible light foxing to a few pages. $450. * Arranged by county, this report on prisons in England and Wales for the year 1818 covers over 320 institutions and includes details such as the number and type of prisoners and the allowances of food, money and clothing allotted to them, along with additional commentary. Pre-1836 Parliamentary papers are scarce today. They were not available to the public, so they were produced in small numbers. OCLC locates 1 copy (University of London). Not in the British Museum Catalogue.
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