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Mental Unsoundness and Mental Disease in a Local Prison

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

William Cotton*
Affiliation:
H.M. Prison, Bristol

Extract

Excluding debtors (who are non-criminal prisoners), a local prison is one containing persons charged with an offence awaiting trial, or convicted and serving a sentence of imprison ment of less than two years. A convict prison contains con victed prisoners sentenced to three or more years' penal servitude. All prisoners sentenced to penal servitude have been while awaiting trial, or are for a short time after sentence, detained in a local prison, and thus come within the cognisance of the medical officer there.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1905 

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