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February 1786
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It appeared also indispensably necessary to the Committee for the
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Preservation of the Health of the Prisoners that a free and copious current of
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Air should be admitted and that ample Supplies of Fresh Water should be
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Secured: To these important Circumstances therefore it will be found that a
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strict attention has been paid - Care has also been taken that the means of
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supporting the Prisoners by a regulated allowance of proper Provision should
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not be wanting: A Kitchen therefore for the general Use of the Prison
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has been provided; from which the Prisoners may be easily and
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expeditiously served without the necessity of an Eating Room
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3rd
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The Correction of the Prisoners not only by the Execution of the
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Sentence of Corporal Punishment but more especially by enforcing the
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sentence to hard Labour and also by the Closer Confinement of such Offenders
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as are of a Refractory or more than usually vicious Disposition has by no means
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escaped the Notice of this Committee. To Effect which it was at this Meeting
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Resolved that Workshops Store Rooms Etc be contrived for the Employment
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of the Prisoners. And the Cells also are directed to be of such Dimensions as to
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admit of the Prisoners doing many kinds of Work in his or her state of
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Solitude and Separation; though it may admit of a doubt whether some of
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the Kinds of Work in which the Prisoners may very properly be employed can
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at any Rate be performed in Apartments of the Size proposed.
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To prevent all Intercourse between Male and Female prisoners
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and also between Prisoners of different descriptions and even to make a
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Separation between Prisoners of the same Sex and of the same description
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the Committee have in Conformity to the Resolutions of the Court in October
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Session 1784 taken care to provide that there should be as many Solitary Cells
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for the Prisoners of the three first Classes as it is proposed that this Prison
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should receive of those Classes ; Vizt. about 25 Cells for Felons Convict Male
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and about 32 for Females of the same Class or Description ; A greater number
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being allotted to Females of this Class as a greater proportion of Male Felons are
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taken off by Transportation Etc 52 Cells are provided for Petty Convicts male
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and 50 for Female of the same Class 18 Cells for Men committed for Trial
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and 18 for Women under the same description which form the third Class
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Besides which it is proposed to provide for the Reception and Lodging of 108
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Men and 58 Women of the 4th. Class of Petty Offenders Vizt. of Persons
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Committed for Assaults for Acts of Vagrancy Etc for some of whom under different
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Circumstances of Guilt i.e. 32 Cells for Males and 15 for Females are
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directed to be prepared.
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