Convict Department - Separate Prison Reports, 1876-1877

B 7

fonds

1876-1877

442942

Microfilm : CY 4985, frames 1-210

1 volume - 0.04 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)

The Separate Prison was located in the colonial penal establishment at Port Arthur, Tasmania. It opened in 1849 and provided the most severe measures of punishment. Here, constant surveillance, solitary confinement and silence were considered the way to reform. The building was a small modified version of the Pentonville Prison in London. It contained individual cells built around a four-wing radial design that ensured constant surveillance, as well as two dumb cells and a separate chapel.

18 April 1876 - 15 March 1877; Records the findings of the night duty officer at Separate Prison with a date for each entry. The contents includes the state of the watch clock, cells and prison, supplying the prisoners with their regulation rations, divine service, people who visited the prison, and general items of note relating to the daily operation of the prison. The officers on duty are Constables Edward, Davis, Latham, Stavely, Rust, Jens Carlsen, Cotten, Hencher, Lisson [or Lesson], McNaughton, Mowatt, Herrington, and More. Entries are signed either by P. Carlsen or George Edwards.

Volume was bound in July 1933.
David Scott Mitchell bookplate inside front cover.

Embossed on spine, "Convicts / Separate / Prison / Reports / 1876-7"