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: MILLBANK PRISON.
A mass of brickwork equal to a fortress, on the left bank of the Thames, close to Vauxhall Bridge ; erected on ground bought in 1799 of the Marquis of Salisbury, and established pursuant to 52 Geo.
III., c. 44, passed Aug 20th, 1812.
It was designed by Jeremy Bentham incorrect, to whom the fee-simple of the ground was conveyed, and is said to have cost the enormous sum of half a million sterling.
The external walls form an irregular octagon, and enclose upwards of sixteen acres of land.
Its ground-plan resembles a wheel, the governor's house occupying a circle in the centre, from which radiate six piles of building, terminating externally in towers.
The ground on which it stands is raised but little above the river, and was at one time considered unhealthy.
It was first named " The Penitentiary ," or " Penitentiary House for London and Middlesex ," and was called " The Millbank Prison " pursuant to 6 & 7 of Victoria, c. 26.
It is the largest prison in London.
Every male and female convict sentenced to transportation in Great Britain is sent to Millbank previous to the sentence being executed.
Here they remain about three months under the close inspection of the three inspectors of the prison, at the end of which time the inspectors report to the Home Secretary, and recommend the place of transportation.
The number of persons in Great Britain and Ireland condemned to transportation every year amounts to about 4000.
So far the accommodation of the prison permits, the separate system is adopted.
Admission to inspectorder from the Secretary for the Home Department, or the Inspector of Prisons.

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