Dover Prison

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Overview

Prison Type   Convict Prison

Date opened   1885

Date closed   1896

Location   Langdon Cliffs   Dover

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Opened August 1885 exclusively for “star class” male convicts, that is men with no previous convictions, to labour on public works. Closed January 1895.

Prison Info

Prison Type   Convict Prison

Date opened   1885

Date closed   1896

Location   Langdon Cliffs   Dover

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.131604  Long.   1.3373441

County   Kent

Critical Remarks

Opened August 1885 exclusively for “star class” male convicts, that is men with no previous convictions, to labour on public works. Closed January 1895.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1888

Annual Confined   -   225

Daily Census   -   101

 

Year 1893

Annual Confined   -   111

Daily Census   -   48

Principal Primary Sources

  • Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Millbank, Pentonville, Borstal, Brixton, Chatham, Dartmoor, Parkhurst, Portland, Portsmouth, Wormwood Scrubs, Fulham and Woking Prisons and Convict Establishments in W. Australia, 1885-86 (Parl. Papers, 1886, XXXV.457, 505), p.51; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Millbank, Pentonville, Borstal, Brixton, Chatham, Dartmoor, Parkhurst, Portland, Portsmouth, Wormwood Scrubs, Fulham and Woking Prisons and Convict Establishments in W. Australia, 1886-87 (Parl. Papers, 1887, XLI.725, 773), p.26; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Millbank, Pentonville, Borstal, Brixton, Chatham, Dartmoor, Parkhurst, Portland, Portsmouth, Wormwood Scrubs, Fulham and Woking Prisons and Convict Establishments in W. Australia, 1887-88 (Parl. Papers, 1888, LVIII.615, 651), p.28; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Millbank, Pentonville, Borstal, Brixton, Chatham, Dartmoor, Parkhurst, Portland, Portsmouth, Wormwood Scrubs, Fulham and Woking Prisons and Convict Establishments in W. Australia, 1888-89 (Parl. Papers, 1889, XLI.657, 711), p.28; Directors of Convict Prisons. Reports, 1889-90 (Parl. Papers, 1890, XXXVII.515, 565), p.24; Directors of Convict Prisons, Reports, 1890-91 (Parl. Papers, 1890-91, XLIII.449, 497), p.24; Directors of Convict Prisons, Reports, 1891-92 (Parl. Papers, 1892, XLII.467, 539), p.33; Directors of Convict Prisons, Reports, 1892-93 (Parl. Papers, 1893-94, XLVII.427, 473), p.29; Directors of Convict Prisons, Reports, 1893-94 (Parl. Papers, 1894, XLIV.491, 541), p.25; Directors of Convict Prisons, Reports, 1894-95 (Parl. Papers, 1895, LVI.1177, 1227), p.27

Management

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM 7/224

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Warrants constituting and appointing Convict Prisons etc. Dover

Dates: 1856-1885


Staff

Archive name: Canterbury Cathedral Archives

Catalogue ref: DCb/F/F/Do/17

Collection: Diocese of Canterbury

Description: Licences for Chaplains - Dover Prison

Dates: 1888