Extract from the prison regulations

Date of creation: 1901.

Penal Department.

Used at Pentridge Prison, now in private collection.

This booklet was in the property of the Penal Department and provided key extracts from prison regulations under the Gaols Act (1), offering guidance for chaplains and officially authorised visitors.

Signed on 20 September 1893.This booklet was in the property of the Penal Department and provided key extracts from prison regulations under the Gaols Act, offering guidance for chaplains and officially authorised visitors.

Signed on 20 September 1893.

This extract includes an Extension Of Mercy To Juvenile Offenders.

Signed on 3rd April 1901.

(1) "Crimes Act 1890"

The Victorian Crimes Act of 1890, No. 1079, included two sections, 333 and 334, which related to the treatment of young prisoners. There was provision for them to be transferred from gaol to the Department of Reformatory Schools, from where they were placed either in private reformatories or ‘service’. Section 334 gave the authorities the right to transfer an offender back to gaol for bad behaviour. Section 33 was used to perform a second punishment in certain instances, when boys who had served their full fixed term less a day or two, were then transferred to a reformatory to begin a further, indeterminate sentence. It was also used to transfer boys back to a reformatory from a foster home for bad behaviour.

This Act was amended by Act No. 1198, Act No. 1231, Act No. 1236 and Act No. 1478. It was repealed by Crimes Act 1915, No. 2737.