564 ANNUAL HEGISTEK, 1817. 



it is the duty of those who can 

 alone bring forward such subjects, 

 to propose to their respective 

 county or eity, or to parliament, 

 the necessity of a prison upon a 

 more enlarged plan ; but it is 

 many years since this subject has 

 been first agitated, and yet even 

 now, in all the prisons, offenders 

 of different characters and stages 

 of crime are mixed indiscriminate- 

 ly together. It is scarcely possible 

 to devise a system better calculated 

 to vitiate and corrupt than the 

 mode in which juvenile offenders 

 are thus confined : a number of 

 boys are mixed indiscriminately 

 together, from eight to sixteen or 

 eighteen years of age, exhibiting 

 a great variety of character, and 

 differing in degrees of guilt, tlie 

 tried and untried, and the first 

 offender with the hardened con- 

 vict. 



Your committee have anxiously 

 sought for information as to the 

 number of juvenile delinquents 

 who are annually conmiitted to the 

 different prisons in the metropolis, 

 and find that in 1813, the number 

 committed to Newgate, under the 

 age of sixteen, were 43 boys aijd 

 19 girls, total 62; of whom one 

 was of nine, three of ten, and 

 three of eleven years of age. — In 

 J814, there were 89 boys and nine 

 girls, total 9S; of wliom fourvvere 

 of nine, eight of ten, and twelve of 

 eleven years of age. — In 1815, 

 tliere were; 76 boys and 1'2 girls, 

 total 88, of whom three werp pf 

 ten, and eight of eleven years of 

 age. — In IblG, there were 134 

 boys and }<2 gills, to*;l 146, of 

 wlioui one was of nine, three were 

 of ten, and fsve of eleven years of 



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tropolis, the ages of the prisoners 

 were not then taken ; but your 

 conimittee are enabled to state, 

 that in the year 1816, there were 

 confined in tlie different prisons 

 1,683 persons under <iO years of 

 age, &c. viz. 



Males. Females. 



In Newgate . 

 Clerkenwell . . . . 

 Cold -bath-fields . . 

 Horsemonger-lane 

 Tothill- fields. . . . 

 Giltspur-treet . . , 



429 — 85 



399 



221 



67 



— 92 



— 50 



— IS 



208 — 76 

 33—5 



135; 



326 



Total 1,683 

 Ofsevcnteen years and under. 

 In Newgate .... 247 — 48 

 Clerkenwell .... 289 — 91 

 Cold-bath-fields . . 292 — 83 

 Horsemonger-lane . 55 — 10 

 Tothill-fields . . . . II7 — 29 

 Giltspur-street . . 17 — 3 



1,017 264 



Total 1,281 

 Ajid of seventeen years and under 

 for felonies alone : 



. . 247 — 48 

 Clerkenwell .... 21^8 — 43 

 Cold- bath-fields . . 135 — 37 

 Horsemonger-lane, 44 — 9 

 Tothill-fields. . . . II7 — 29 

 Giltspur-street ... I7 — 3 



In Newgate 



In the Qther prisons of the hi€- 



788 169 



Total— 957 

 Vour committee lemark, tliat 

 the greater part of tliese juvenile 

 ol- nders, some of them infants of 

 9. 10, and 11 years of age, are 

 niixed indisciiinir.ately witii aU 

 offindeis of all ages, and all of 

 tliem with boys of the ages of 15 



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