HM Prison, Dorchester

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Alternative name(s):	Dorchester Prison (Also known as)
Date:	1782-2010
Places:	Dorchester, Dorset
Functions, occupations and activities:	Government (central) > Home Office
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C14287 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O40920 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1782-1983: committee, governors, staff and prisoners records incl prison registers	Dorset History Centre	NG-PR/1	NRA 38412 Dorchester
2	1789-1807: accounts of treasurer of gaol fund - Robert Lambert	Dorset History Centre	D/ASH	NRA 13670
3	1782-2010: minutes of the Discipline Office and Visiting Committee, prison rules, governors' journals, registers of prison officers, civilian staff and visitors, registers and description books for prisoners, officers' daily report book, register of debtors, criminal process books, discipline registers, registers of prisoner deaths, prisoners earnings book, prison hopsital admission registers, corresp, photographs; files rel to prisoner education, borstal association, investigations and other procedural matters.	Dorset History Centre	NG-PR/1