Liskeard Town Prison

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Overview

Alternative Names   Liskeard Prison

Prison Type   Local Prison -  Common Gaol, Lock Up

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [1837]

Location   unknown   Liskeard

Map location   in the vicinity

County   Cornwall

Critical Remarks

Location information unknown for this prison. By 1828, seems to have been used primarily (if not only) as a lock up. Last appears in the penal statistics for 1836.

Prison Info

Alternative Names   Liskeard Prison

Prison Type   Local Prison

Jurisdiction   Municipality

Date opened   {1818}

Date closed   [1837]

Location   unknown   Liskeard

Map location   in the vicinity
Lat.   50.449675  Long.   -4.4663405

County   Cornwall

Critical Remarks

Location information unknown for this prison. By 1828, seems to have been used primarily (if not only) as a lock up. Last appears in the penal statistics for 1836.

Prisoner Statistics

 

Year 1818

Annual Committed   -   7

Daily Greatest number   -   2

 

Year 1828

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Census   -   0

 

Year 1832

Annual Committed   -   0

Daily Greatest number   -   0

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.6
  • Eighth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1832), Appendix, p.6
  • Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (1829, XIX.401), p.23
  • Return of Places of Confinement Outside Gaol Acts in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.425), p.65
  • Royal Commission of Inquiry into Municipal Corporations of England and Wales, First Report, Appendices: Part 1 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XXIII.1), p.527