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LJ002-0015
three hundred debtors and nine hundred criminals in Newgate, or twelve hundred prisoners in all.
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LJ002-0016
Previous to that date there had been seven hundred or eight hundred frequently, and once, in Mr. Akerman's time, one thousand.
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LJ002-0017
Trustworthy evidence is forthcoming to the effect that these high figures were constantly maintained for many months at a time.
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LJ002-0018
The inadequacy of the jail was noticed and reported upon again and again by the grand juries of the city of London,
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LJ002-0019
who seldom let a session go by without visiting Newgate.
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LJ002-0020
In eighteen thirteen
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LJ002-0021
the grand jury made a special presentment to the Court of Common Council, pointing out that on the debtors' side, which was intended for only one hundred,
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LJ002-0022
no less than three hundred forty were crowded, to the great inconvenience and danger of the inmates.
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LJ002-0023
On the female side matters were much worse;
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LJ002-0024
Quote. the apartments set apart for them, being built to accommodate sixty persons, now contain about one hundred twenty. End quote.
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LJ002-0025
Returns laid before the House of Commons showed that six thousand, four hundred thirty-nine persons had been committed to Newgate
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LJ002-0026
in the three years between eighteen thirteen and eighteen sixteen,
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LJ002-0027
and this number did not include the debtors, a numerous class, who were still committed to Newgate pending the completion of the White Cross Street prison.
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LJ002-0028
In order to realize the evils entailed by incarceration in Newgate in these days, it is necessary to give some account of its interior
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LJ002-0029
as it was occupied and appropriated in eighteen ten.
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LJ002-0030
Full details of the arrangements are to be found in Mr. Neild's "State of Prisons in England, Scotland, and Wales," published in eighteen twelve.
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LJ002-0031
The jail at that date was divided into eight separate and more or less distinct departments, each of which had its own wards and yard.
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LJ002-0032
These were: one. The male debtors' side.
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LJ002-0033
two. The female debtors' side. three. The chapel yard. four. The middle yard.
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LJ002-0034
five. The master felons' side. six. The female felons' side. seven. The state side.
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LJ002-0035
eight. The press yard.
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LJ002-0036
one. The male debtors' side consisted of a yard forty-nine feet by thirty-one,
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LJ002-0037
leading to thirteen wards on various floors, and a day room.
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LJ002-0038
Of these wards, three were appropriated to the "cabin side," so called because
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LJ002-0039
they each contained four small rooms or "cabins" seven feet square,
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LJ002-0040
intended to accommodate a couple of prisoners apiece, but often much more crowded.
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LJ002-0041
Two other wards were appropriated to the master's side debtors; they were each twenty-three feet by fourteen and a half,
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LJ002-0042
and supposed to accommodate twenty persons. The eight remaining wards were for the common side debtors,
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LJ002-0043
long narrow rooms -- one thirty-six feet, six twenty-three feet, and the eighth eighteen,
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LJ002-0044
the whole about fifteen feet wide.
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LJ002-0045
The various wards were all about eleven feet in height,
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LJ002-0046
and were occupied as a rule by ten to fifteen people when the prison was not crowded, but double the number was occasionally placed in them.
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LJ002-0047
The day room was fitted with benches and settles after the manner of the tap in a public-house.
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LJ002-0048
two. The female debtors' side consisted of a court-yard forty-nine by sixteen feet,
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LJ002-0049
leading to two wards, one of which was thirty-six feet by fifteen,
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LJ002-0050
and the other eighteen by fifteen; and they nominally held twenty-two persons.
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LJ002-0051
A high wall fifteen feet in height divided the females' court-yard from the men's.
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LJ002-0052
three. The chapel yard was about forty-three feet by twenty-five.
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LJ002-0053
It had been for some time devoted principally to felons of the worst types,
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LJ002-0054
those who were the oldest offenders, sentenced to transportation, and who had narrowly escaped the penalty of death.
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LJ002-0055
This arrangement was, however, modified after eighteen eleven, and the chapel yard was allotted to misdemeanants and prisoners awaiting trial.
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LJ002-0056
The wards in this part were five in number, all in dimensions twenty feet by fifteen, with a sixth ward fifteen feet square.
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LJ002-0057
These wards were all fitted with barrack-beds, but no bedding was supplied.
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LJ002-0058
The chapel yard led to the chapel, and on the staircase were two rooms frequently set apart for the king's witnesses,
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LJ002-0059
those who had turned king's evidence, whose safety might have been imperiled had they been lodged with the men against whom they had informed.
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LJ002-0060
But these king's witnesses were also put at times into the press yard among the capital convicts, seemingly a very dangerous proceeding,
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LJ002-0061
or they lodged with the gatesmen, the prisoner officers who had charge of the inner gates.
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LJ002-0062
The middle yard was at first given up to the least heinous offenders. After eighteen twelve it changed functions with the chapel yard.
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LJ002-0063
It was fifty feet by twenty-five, and had five wards each thirty-eight by fifteen. At one end of the yard was an arcade,
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LJ002-0064
directly under the chapel, in which there were three cells, used either for the confinement of disorderly and refractory prisoners,
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LJ002-0065
or female convicts ordered for execution.
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LJ002-0066
The master felons' side consisted of a yard the same size as the preceding, appropriated nominally to the most decent and better-behaved prisoners,
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LJ002-0067
but really kept for the few who had funds sufficient to gain them admission to these more comfortable quarters.
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LJ002-0068
Here were also lodged the gatesmen, the prisoners who had charge of the inner gates, and who were entrusted with the duty of escorting visitors from the gates
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LJ002-0069
to the various wards their friends occupied.
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LJ002-0070
The state side was the part stolen from the female felons' side.
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LJ002-0071
It was large and comparatively commodious, being maintained on a better footing than any other part of the prison.
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LJ002-0072
The inmates were privileged, either by antecedents or the fortunate possession of sufficient funds to pay the charges of the place.
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LJ002-0073
Neild takes it for granted that the former rather than the latter prevailed in the selection,
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LJ002-0074
and tells us that in the state side, quote, such prisoners were safely associated whose manners and conduct evince a more liberal style of education,
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LJ002-0075
and who are therefore lodged apart from all other districts of the jail. End quote.
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LJ002-0076
The state side contained twelve good-sized rooms,
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LJ002-0077
from twenty-one by eighteen feet to fifteen feet square, which were furnished with bedsteads and bedding.
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LJ002-0078
seven. The press yard was that part set aside for the condemned.
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LJ002-0079
Its name and its situation were the same as those of the old place of carrying out the terrible sentence inflicted on accused persons who stood mute.
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8
LJ002-0080
The long narrow yard still remained as we saw it in Jacobite times,
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63
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LJ002-0081
and beyond it was now a day room for the capital convicts or those awaiting execution.
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LJ002-0082
Beyond the press yard were three stories, condemned cells, fifteen in all, with vaulted ceilings nine feet high to the crown of the arch.
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119
8
LJ002-0083
The ground floor cells were nine feet by six;
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42
8
LJ002-0084
those on the first floor were rather larger on account of a set-off in the wall; and the uppermost were the largest, for the same reason.
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8
LJ002-0085
Security was provided for in these condemned cells by lining the substantial stone walls with planks studded with broad-headed nails;
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114
8
LJ002-0086
they were lighted by a double-grated window two feet nine inches by fourteen inches; and in the doors, which were four inches thick,
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121
8
LJ002-0087
a circular aperture had been let in to give ventilation and secure a free current of air.
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76
8
LJ002-0088
In each cell there was a barrack bedstead on the floor without bedding.
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57
8
LJ002-0089
eight. The female felons were deprived of part of the space which the architect had intended for them.
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81
8
LJ002-0090
More than half their quadrangle had been partitioned off for another purpose,
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58
8
LJ002-0091
and what remained was divided into a master's and a common side for female felons.
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77
8
LJ002-0092
The two yards were adjoining, that for the common side much the largest.
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LJ002-0093
There were nine wards in all on the female side, one of them in the attic,
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60
8
LJ002-0094
with four casements and two fireplaces, being allotted for a female infirmary
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70
8
LJ002-0095
and the rest being provided with barrack beds, and in dimensions varying from thirty feet by fifteen to fifteen feet by ten.
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119
8
LJ002-0096
The eight courts above enumerated were well supplied with water;
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55
8
LJ002-0097
they had dust-bins, sewers, and so forth, "properly disposed," and the city scavenger paid periodical visits to the prison.
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112
8
LJ002-0098
The prisoners had few comforts, beyond the occasional use of a bath at some distance, situated in the press yard,
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94
8
LJ002-0099
to which access was granted rarely and as a great favor. But they were allowed the luxury of drink -- if they could pay for it.
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104
8
LJ002-0100
A recent reform had closed the tap kept by the jailer within the precincts, but
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69
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LJ002-0101
there was still a "convenient room" which served, and, quote,
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8
LJ002-0102
near it a grating through which the debtors receive their beer from the neighboring public-houses.
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75
8
LJ002-0103
The felons' side has a similar accommodation, and this mode of introducing the beverage is adopted because no publican as such
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100
8
LJ002-0104
can be permitted to enter the interior of this prison. End quote. The tap-room and bar were just behind the felons' entrance lodge,
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104
8
LJ002-0105
and beyond it was a room called the "wine room," because formerly used for the sale of wine, but
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77
8
LJ002-0106
in which latterly a copper had been fixed for the cooking of provisions sent in by charitable persons.
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79
8
LJ002-0107
Quote, On the top of the jail, continues Neild, are a watch-house and a sentry-box, where two or more guards, with dogs and firearms,
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123
8
LJ002-0108
watch all night. Adjoining the felons' side lodge is the keeper's office, where the prison books are kept, and his clerk,
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102
8
LJ002-0109
called the clerk of the papers, attends daily. End quote.
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LJ002-0110
Having thus briefly described the plan and appropriation of the prison, I propose to deal now with the general condition of the inmates, and the manner of their life.
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119
8
LJ002-0111
Of these the debtors, male and female, formed a large proportion.
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55
8
LJ002-0112
The frequency and extent of processes against debtors seventy or eighty years ago will appear almost incredible
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99
8
LJ002-0113
in an age when insolvent acts and bankruptcy courts do so much to relieve the impecunious,
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79
8
LJ002-0114
and imprisonment for debt has almost entirely disappeared.
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