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His Majesty's Prison Wakefield is a Category A men's prison in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, operated by His Majesty's Prison Service. The prison has been nicknamed the "Monster Mansion" [ a ] due to the large number of high-profile, high-risk sex offenders and murderers held there.
This record is held by West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield. See contact details. Details of C118. Reference: C118. Title: Wakefield Prison, records. Description: Includes...
- 1801-1991
- Wakefield Prison, records
- C118
The West Riding County justices' administration of Wakefield prison is recorded in the Quarter Sessions' archive [see especially QC2 minutes of the justices' visiting committee 1834-1878 and see also other classes described in the published guide to the Quarter Sessions records].
In 1874 the prison became part of the national prison service, known as H.M. Prison, Wakefield. Throughout its history, the facility has been home to inmates from all over the West Riding. This collection includes registers of inmates through 1914, as well as records of St. John’s Community Home School and the records of military prisoners ...
In July 2014 David Studdard shared the following images taken around 1916 of Wakefield Prison in Wakefield, Yorkshire. Tony Homewood thinks the above images may be from as early as 1909 at the time of the execution of Ernest Hutchinson when a newspaper took some images of the prison.
Categories: Prisons in England. Buildings in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Non-topical/index: Uses of Wikidata Infobox. Listed buildings in England with known IDs. Uses of Wikidata Infobox with maps. Pages with coordinates.
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