CO129-058 - Sir Bowring - 1856 [8-10] — Page 58

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It this place the criminals prisons the debtor's prison and the Magistrate's Court are. Surrounded by one one inclosures having always in it two gates which are shut at night. The criminal prison has also on two sides a wall of its own, and in the wall another gate opposite to the front of the Court, at twenty-four yards distance, and within the general enclosure.

There are six cells attached to the Court for the temporary custody of prisoners. When a defendant has been convicted at the Court he is at once conveyed to the criminal prison and afterwards detained there by a Magistrate's warrant. The wards of the jail are in fact used for the same purpose as the cells usually attached to a police Office, the buildings having been thus arranged in proximity to avoid the expense of constructing cells.

A short time ago a defendant was convicted under a local Ordinance of an aggravated assault, and refusing to pay the fine imposed was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. The sheriff and jailor of the Court thereupon conveyed him without written warrant towards

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It this place the criminals prisons the debtor's prison and the Magistrate's Court are. Surrounded by one one inclosures having always in it two gates which are shut at night. The criminal prison has also on two sides a wall of its own, and in the wall another gate opposite to the front of the Court, at twenty-four yards distance, and within the general enclosure.There are six cells attached to the Court for the temporary custody of prisoners. When a defendant has been convicted at the Court he is at once conveyed to the criminal prison and afterwards detained there by a Magistrate's warrant. The wards of the jail are in fact used for the same purpose as the cells usually attached to a police Office, the buildings having been thus arranged in proximity to avoid the expense of constructing cells.A short time ago a defendant was convicted under a local Ordinance of an aggravated assault, and refusing to pay the fine imposed was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. The sheriff and jailor of the Court thereupon conveyed him without written warrant towards
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20.2157It this place the criminals prisons the debtor's prison and the Magistrate's Court are.logether Surrounded by one one inclosures having always in it two gates which are shut at night. The criminal prison has also on two sides a wall of its pwry, and inI the wall another gate opposite to the front of the (pourt, at twenty four yards distance, and :within the general enclosure.There are or-0 cells attached to the Court for the temporary custody of prisoners. When a defendant has been convicted at the Court he is at once Conveyed to the criminal prisonA and afterwards detained there by a Magistrate's warrant. The~ wards of thehe jail are in for the same pumpose& fact used as the cells: usually attached to a police Office, the buildings having been thesarrrranged in proximity to avoid the expense of constricting cells.A short lime ago a defendant was convicted under a local Ordinance of an aggravated assault, and refusing to pay the fine imposed was sentenced to a month's imprisonvient The scher and jailor of the Court thereupon conveyeded him without written warrant towards
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It this place the criminals

prisons the debtor's prison and the

Magistrate's Court are.

logether

Surrounded

by one

one inclosures having

always

in it two

gates which are

shut at night. The criminal prison

has also on two sides a wall of its

pwry,

and in

I

the wall another gate

opposite to the front of the (pourt, at twenty four yards distance, and :within the general enclosure.

There

are or-0

cells attached

to the Court for the temporary custody of prisoners. When a defendant has been convicted

at the Court he is at once

Conveyed to the criminal prison

A

and

afterwards detained there

by a Magistrate's warrant. The~

wards

of

the

he jail are in

for the same pumpose

& fact used

as the cells

: usually attached to a police Office,

the buildings having been thes

arr

rranged in proximity to avoid the expense of constricting cells.

A short lime

ago

a

defendant was convicted under a local Ordinance of an aggravated

assault, and

refusing to pay

the fine imposed was sentenced to a month's imprisonvient The scher and jailor of the Court thereupon conveyed

ed him

without written warrant towards

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