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In 1997 Cardiff Prison was criticised for chaining sick inmates to their hospital beds after a probe into the death of one of Cardiff's prisoners. [4] Three years later one of Cardiff's Assistant Governors was found dead after an investigation into child pornography. The manager had been arrested at the prison days earlier by detectives ...
It was considered unfit for prisoners in 1819, while Cardiff Gaol was deemed insufficient in 1814. Some prisons were built for purpose, including Beaumaris Gaol (1829) in Anglesey. [4] In 1878 the prison system in Wales was nationalised and came under centralised government control. [3] This led to better conditions and fewer, larger prisons. [3]
Execution sites in England and Wales (1 C) Pages in category "Execution sites in the United Kingdom" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
HM Prison Swansea (Welsh: Carchar Abertawe EF) is a Category B/C men's prison, located in the Sandfields area of Swansea, Wales. The prison is operated by His Majesty's Prison Service , and is colloquially known as 'Cox's farm', after a former governor.
Rhoda Willis, also known under the alias of Leslie James, (14 August 1867 – 14 August 1907) was an English baby farmer convicted of murder.She was the last woman to be executed in Wales.
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John Minkes and Maurice Vanstone, Gender, Race and the Death Penalty: Lessons from Three 1950s Murder Trials, Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 45(4), 403–420 (2006). Nadifa Mohamed, The Fortune Men, Viking (2021). Chris Phillips, Hanged for the Word If: The murder of Lily Volpert and the execution of Mahmood Hussein Mattan, the author (2020).
The executions took place in Pwllhalog, near Cardiff, on 22 July 1679. [6] Two plaques mark the site at what is now the junction of Crwys Road and Richmond Road in Roath, Cardiff, still known as "Death Junction". [9] Evans was the first to die. He addressed the gathering in both Welsh and English saying, ‘Adieu, Father Lloyd! Though only for ...