| Description | Photographs and details of prisoners released from the General Prison, Perth.
The photographs are head and upper body photographs of seated prisoners.
The accompanying description gives name, age, height, crime for which imprisoned, court, date and place of sentence, date of liberation and intended place of residence.
The volume is indexed by the surname of the prisoner.
7 April 1882 - 18 January 1884
An index to this volume is available on our website and in the Old Aberdeen House searchroom.
Pages 246-255 and 262- 276 are missing (noted on Conservation Report in July 2023). |
| Administrative History | Perth Prison was constructed in 1839 as a General Prison, whose primary purpose was to house increasing numbers of long-term prisoners being sentenced by courts all over Scotland to long spells of imprisonment. The General Prison at Perth housed convicts serving sentences exceeding 9 months and lunatic prisoners. From 1882 Barlinnie Prison, near Glasgow, opened and served partly as a General Prison. By 1904 most long sentences were served in Peterhead Prison (for men) and Duke Street Prison, Glasgow (for women). |