Southwark Borough Compter

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Records

Overview

Alternative Names Borough Compter

Prison Type Local Prison - Common Gaol

Jurisdiction Municipality

Date opened 1717

Date closed 1852

Location Tooley Street Southwark

Map location exact or closely approximate

County Surrey

Critical Remarks

In 1840, used exclusively for female prisoners transferred from Giltspur Street Prison.

Prison Info

Alternative Names Borough Compter

Prison Type Local Prison

Jurisdiction Municipality

Date opened 1717

Date closed 1852

Location Tooley Street Southwark

Map location exact or closely approximate
Lat. 51.5044 Long. -0.0908

County Surrey

Critical Remarks

In 1840, used exclusively for female prisoners transferred from Giltspur Street Prison.

Prisoner Statistics

Year 1818

Annual Committed - 1509

Daily Greatest number - 82

Year 1823

Annual Committed - 1327

Daily Census - 46

Year 1828

Annual Committed - 1003

Daily Census - 47

Year 1833

Annual Committed - 2084

Daily Census - 56

Year 1838

Annual Confined - 1495

Daily Census - 54

Year 1843

Annual Confined - 269

Daily Census - 11

Year 1848

Annual Confined - 143

Daily Daily average - 43

Principal Primary Sources

James Neild, The State of the Prisons of England, Scotland and Wales (London, 1812), p.57

Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.46

The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p.73; Fourth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1822), Appendix, p.59; Fifth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1823), Appendix, p.110; Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1824), Appendix, p.139; Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p.141; 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.42

Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1824, XIX.359), p.250; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1825, XXIII.1), p.346; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.1), p.330; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.327), p.340; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1829, XIX.1), p.304; Reports and Schedules Pursuant To Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIV.1), p.306; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, XII.1), p.301; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1831-32. XXXIII.197), p.300; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.1), p.325; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVI.1), p.310; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLIV.225), p.295; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.1), p.198; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLV.1), p.200; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1837-8, XLIII.227), p.202; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.17), p.202; Reports Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.1), p.217; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1841, XVIII.1), p.230; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.1), p.232; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.1), p.234; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXXIX.403), p.224; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXXVII.417), p.263; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1846, XXXIV.187), p.273; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.297), p.276; Reports and Schedules Pursuant to Gaol Acts (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, LII.465), p.278

Abstract Return of Establishment and Expenditure of Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.241), p.60

Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Second Report (Parl. Papers, 1837 XXXII.1), p.178; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Third Report, Supplement (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XXX.367), p.37; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXI.1), p.276; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.1), p.288; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, IV.1), p.308; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXVIII.1), p.7; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fifteenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVII.1), p.122

Secondary Sources

https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/london-metropolitan-archives/visitor-information/Documents/59-prison-records.pdf