February 1786

It appeared also indispensably necessary to the Committee for the
Preservation of the Health of the Prisoners that a free and copious current of
Air should be admitted and that ample Supplies of Fresh Water should be
Secured: To these important Circumstances therefore it will be found that a
strict attention has been paid - Care has also been taken that the means of
supporting the Prisoners by a regulated allowance of proper Provision should
not be wanting: A Kitchen therefore for the general Use of the Prison
has been provided; from which the Prisoners may be easily and
expeditiously served without the necessity of an Eating Room

3rd

The Correction of the Prisoners not only by the Execution of the
Sentence of Corporal Punishment but more especially by enforcing the
sentence to hard Labour and also by the Closer Confinement of such Offenders
as are of a Refractory or more than usually vicious Disposition has by no means
escaped the Notice of this Committee. To Effect which it was at this Meeting
Resolved that Workshops Store Rooms Etc be contrived for the Employment
of the Prisoners. And the Cells also are directed to be of such Dimensions as to
admit of the Prisoners doing many kinds of Work in his or her state of
Solitude and Separation; though it may admit of a doubt whether some of
the Kinds of Work in which the Prisoners may very properly be employed can
at any Rate be performed in Apartments of the Size proposed.

To prevent all Intercourse between Male and Female prisoners
and also between Prisoners of different descriptions and even to make a
Separation between Prisoners of the same Sex and of the same description
the Committee have in Conformity to the Resolutions of the Court in October
Session 1784 taken care to provide that there should be as many Solitary Cells
for the Prisoners of the three first Classes as it is proposed that this Prison
should receive of those Classes ; Vizt. about 25 Cells for Felons Convict Male
and about 32 for Females of the same Class or Description ; A greater number
being allotted to Females of this Class as a greater proportion of Male Felons are
taken off by Transportation Etc 52 Cells are provided for Petty Convicts male
and 50 for Female of the same Class 18 Cells for Men committed for Trial
and 18 for Women under the same description which form the third Class
Besides which it is proposed to provide for the Reception and Lodging of 108
Men and 58 Women of the 4th. Class of Petty Offenders Vizt. of Persons
Committed for Assaults for Acts of Vagrancy Etc for some of whom under different
Circumstances of Guilt i.e. 32 Cells for Males and 15 for Females are
directed to be prepared.