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This lengthy extract is from the first report of the Prison Inspectors, made in 1836. It is taken from Parliamentary Papers, 1836/XXV, pages 16-20 and 271-272. The Inspectors are writing about Newgate Gaol. We first visited that part of the prison called the Chapel Yard.
Dec 29, 2013 · Despite the gaol’s expansion, little had changed by 1835 when the Prison Inspector Captain William John Williams made his first visit. His findings, published in the First, Fourth and Fifth Reports of the Prison Inspectors (1836, 1839 and 1840), provide vivid portraits of life inside an old-fashioned gaol.
Jan 29, 2016 · While the introduction of central-government inspectors for prisons in a British act of 1835 has been seen as a key Whig achievement of the 1830s, the Irish precedent enacted by Charles Grant, a liberal Tory chief secretary, in the early 1820s, has gone unnoticed by scholars.
- Richard J. Butler
- 2016
Conditions in prisons, 1836. This is part of a letter written by Bisset Hawkins, a prison inspector, to Lord John Russell, the Home Secretary. He is describing the conditions of the prisons in the west of England.
- Municipal Prisons
- Houses of Correction
- Davy Hall
- Peter Prison
- Archbishop's Prison
- St. Mary's Prison
- Gallows
The city of York, like many lesser towns, (fn. 2) may besupposed to have had its own prison from an earlydate, and a writ of 1248 (fn. 3) may refer to such a prison.It was not, however, granted a prison by the Crown,and the first clear allusion to its prison is to be foundin 1278-9. The butchers of the city then guarded itby night and the bailiffs ...
The close connexion established in the 16th century between misdemeanour and idleness, idlenessand poverty, makes it natural to speak next of thecity's houses of correction. By 1551 arrangementswere already being made to use part of St. Anthony'sHall as a poor house, (fn. 76) and in 1567 the corporationdecreed that a weaving-shop for the able-bodie...
Davygate takes its name from Davy Hall, a building now demolished, and Davy Hall in turn fromthe family of David the larderer. This family wasone of high antiquity, tracing its ancestry back tothe early 12th century if not to a remoter time. (fn. 97) Itexercised by inheritance the function of stocking theking's larder in York with both game and dom...
From early times the chapter exercised an independent jurisdiction over their tenants both withinthe city and without. When Howard visited the gaolof the liberty (1776-9) the jurisdictional area comprised 9 'places' within the city and The Ainsty,62 in the East Riding, 40 in the West, and 51 in theNorth, 7 in Nottinghamshire, and 1 each in Devon,Gl...
The archbishop had a gaol in York by 1351 (fn. 150) —the 'bishop prison' or 'convict prison' as it was sometimes later called. Presumably it was for criminousclerks and those who had successfully pleadedclergy, (fn. 151) and to the prisoners in it bequests weremade until at least 1550. (fn. 152) After that they ceaseperhaps because the great reduct...
By 1289 the liberty of St. Mary contained its owngaol, (fn. 157) which was being delivered by the king'sjustices in 1322. (fn. 158) The abbey's right to keep thisgaol was expressly granted by charter in 1448. (fn. 159) After the Dissolution the liberty was preserved, andits privileges confirmed to its steward by charters ofJames I and Charles I. Th...
According to a story often repeated but of questionable authenticity, the citizens of York first usedas their place of execution the gallows of the libertyof St. Mary's Abbey (see below). In 1379, however,in consequence of a dispute with the monks, theydetermined to erect a gallows of their own. This wasplaced 'where the gibbet post stood' on the w...
law - the Whig government's introduction of a centrally funded prison inspector ate in 1835 - represented instead a change in the philosophy of administration and reflected a shift in the principles then governing penal reform.
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The Prisoners' Counsel Act 1836 (hereafter, the Act) was arguably the most significant development in criminal trial procedure during the nineteenth century.2 The Act gave prisoners in felony trials the right to delegate the presentation of their defence to professional counsel.
