In 1800 they were given the power, along with the city constables, to execute any justices ’ or court order requiring the conveyance of prisoners to or from the county gaol ( at Fisherton Anger, then outside the city of Salisbury ) as if it were the city gaol ( and, in so doing, they were made immune from any legal action for acting outside their respective jurisdictions ).

During its operation, the gaol was used to house short-term prisoners, lunatics and some of the colony ’ s most notorious and hardened criminals.

In 1969 this decision was reversed and the gaol ’ s female inmates were transferred to a new facility at Northfield.

Some of the more significant buildings include the Oatlands gaol ( 1835 ), Commissariat ’ s store and watch house ( 1830s ) and officers ’ quarters ( 1830s ).

The Latvian special police didn ’ t like us because we were speaking Russian, and decided to throw us in gaol.

The gaol was built by prisoners who slept on high security barges on Corio Bay during construction.

The gaol was originally designed to cater for 40 male prisoners serving as a holding place for prisoners heading to St Helena Island in Moreton Bay.

Fannie Bay Gaol is a historic gaol in Darwin, Australia.

As it was believed that in a colony of free settlers there would be little crime, no provision was made for a gaol in Colonel Light's 1837 plan.

However, by mid-1837 the South Australian Register was warning of escaped convicts from New South Wales, and tenders for a temporary gaol were sought.

By the 18th century there was a square at the centre of the town, flanked by the town hall, a public gaol housing prisoners from all over the Lordship of Biscay, a hospital and a poor-house for local people.

After Fox was released from Launceston gaol in 1656, he preached throughout the West Country.

The plan for the colony was that it would be the ideal embodiment of the best qualities of British society, that is, no religious discrimination or unemployment and, as it was believed that this would also result in very little crime, no provision was made for a gaol.

The South Australia Police was formed later that year to protect the community and enforce government regulations and the first gaol, a two roomed hut, was opened on 1 January 1839.

One Reform Committee member, Frederick Gray, had committed suicide while in Pretoria gaol, on 16 May, and his death was a factor in softening the Transvaal government's attitude to the remaining prisoners.

Southwark was also the location of several prisons, including those of the Crown or ' Prerogative Courts ', the Marshalsea and King's Bench prisons, that of the local manors courts e. g. Borough Compter, The Clink, and the Surrey county gaol originally housed at the ' White Lion Inn ' ( also called informally the ' Borough Gaol ') and eventually at Horsemonger Lane Gaol.

After the Dissolution, the bell-tower was used as the gaol for the borough until it was demolished in the late 18th century.

" The captured woman, named Luggenemenener, was later sent to Campbell Town gaol and separated from her two-year old son, Rolepana, "... whom she had faced death to protect.

King Charles was executed in January 1649 and shortly after Parliament again ordered the slighting of the castle, apart from buildings necessary for administration and use as a county gaol.

In the last two decades of the century, around £ 30, 000 was spent rebuilding Lancaster's county gaol.

Dowle subsequently fled and was captured and placed in gaol.

The Round House, the oldest remaining intact building in Western Australia, was built as a gaol between 1830-1831.

The convicts built a new gaol, Fremantle Prison, which was completed in the 1850s and continued to be used as Fremantle's prison until 1991.

Although the evidence showed that neither he nor any of his group had been involved in the violence, he was nevertheless found guilty of inciting a riot and sentenced to a year in Lincoln gaol.

Alcuin spoke Old English ( or Old Anglish ), which, coupled with the printer's seeming anti-Christian sentiments, immediately raised suspicions that it was a fraud-confirmed in the printer's subsequent trial and sentence to gaol.

Through the years Eye has had a deer park, a leper hospital, a gaol, a workhouse, a David Fisher theatre, a coaching inn with posting establishment, a working men's hall and reading room, an Esther, a guildhall, a grammar school, 20 pubs ( including beer houses ) and an airfield which was occupied by the 480th and 490th USAAF Bomb Groups during World War II.

" Connolly was not actually held in gaol, but in a room ( now called the " Connolly Room ") at the State Apartments in Dublin Castle, which had been converted to a first-aid station for troops recovering from the war.

The Prison Act, 1877, reformed the English prison system, and York Castle gaol was passed into the control of central government the following year.

Hertford Castle was used as a gaol for a series of important captives during the Hundred Years ' War.

In 1379 the men of Shropshire forwarded to parliament a complaint of the felonies committed by the men of Cheshire and of the Welsh marches, and declared the gaol of Shrewsbury Castle to be in such a ruinous condition that they had no place of imprisonment for the offenders when captured.

Cambridge Castle was refortified during the English Civil War but once again fell into disuse, used primarily as the county gaol.

An engraving of Cambridge Castle in 1730, including the motte ( l ) and the gatehouse gaol ( r )

In addition to courts, and now a gaol, Chester Castle also housed a garrison of soldiers.

Sometimes, as in the case of three Hampshire serjeanties — those of acting as king's marshal, of finding an archer for his service, and of keeping the gaol in Winchester Castle — the tenure can be definitely traced as far back as Domesday.

A second gaol was then built between 1841 and 1844 at the corner of Russell and La Trobe Streets, adjoining the then Supreme court.

The commissions of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery were not renewed by the monarchs immediately succeeding Queen Victoria and in 1920 the Court of Criminal Appeal quashed a conviction recorded at Peterborough Quarter Sessions.

Across the road from the churchyard stands the Court Hall, one of Winchelsea's oldest buildings, the lower floor once being the gaol.

On leaving the army after 26 years 58 days reckonable service ( i. e. excluding the period in gaol in 1848 ), he was appointed a warder at Hampton Court, with a pension of 1 / 1d as an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital.

During a time when there were 241 capital offences, more prisoners died from ' gaol fever ' than were put to death by all the public executioners in the realm.

The old buildings were adjoining what used to be Caernarfon gaol, which has closed since about the early 20th century, and now been turned into further Council Offices.

A courthouse and gaol ( jail ) were built at Long Bluff ( near present day Society Hill ) and were operational by late 1772.

Improvements were also made to sanitation ; in the 18th century more people died from gaol fever that by hanging.

Not only were gaols indescribably dirty but were so overcrowded that great numbers of prisoners died each year from gaol fever.

When in 1917, surviving leaders of the rebellion were released from gaol ( or escaped ) they joined Sinn Féin en masse, using it as a vehicle for the advancement of the republic.

They were imprisoned at Hertford gaol, although the women were later acquitted ( Nott was released at the next Assize ).

On 12 September 1738 therefore, John Turpin was committed to gaol in Essex on charges of horse theft, but following his help in preventing a jailbreak, the charges were dropped on 5 March 1739.

He often visited Aylesbury gaol, where many of his Quaker friends were in prison.

The Soke had its own magistrates, who were appointed by the Lord Paramount, acting under a commission of oyer and terminer, and gaol delivery, as well as under the ordinary commission, and the magistrates for the liberty retained the power of hanging a criminal in cases of murder, which in fact they exercised so late as the year 1812.

The adjacent workhouse and gaol were renovated to become the new municipal offices, and this was reconstructed in 1858 until 1859 to better suit its purpose.

Traditional gaols were falling out of favour and being replaced with forced labour institutions, and in 1805, the old Bridewell gaol was closed.