(Description) Figure 11 Misconduct book from Chester City Gaol. The pages shown include, in November 1852, the following: ‘Jeremiah Kearnes (19), William McCormack (21) and Walter Lambert (18), for riotous and disorderly conduct in the school room and throwing coals at another prisoner. Each to be kept from school for one month.’

Session 3: Inside the prison school

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This is a photograph of an open notebook, in which handwritten details of dates, names, behaviour and punishments are recorded in a series of columns.