... BLAZE IN DARTMOOR PRISON Workshop Is Damaged SOON OUT Tavistock Fire Brigade was called to-day to an outbreak in one of the workshops in Dartmoor Prison. A Home Office spokesman said: The fire was discovered in the mat-making shop by the prison staff ...

... Dartmoor Attack Story Three Prisoners Accused A special court was held in the Governor's Office of Dartmoor Prison to-day to hear charges against three prisoners accused of attacking warders. The prisoners. John Cohen. aged 28. Kenneth Carr. aged 28. ...

... TOBACCO SMUGGLES Dartmoor Prison Officer Suspeaded From Duty A Dartmoor prison officet has been suspended from duty after investigations into allegations of tobacco smuggling at the gag!. it was stated by a Home Office spokesman to-day The warder is a ...

... DARTMOOR ATTACK A prisoner named Dunn is in the punishment cella of Dartmoor Prison following a knife attsek on another prisoner. The other prisoner, named Maskell, was due to be released the following day. ...

... WARDEN TO APPEAL Stanley Alfred Ciarry. aged Dartmoor prison officlr. has lodged notice of avwal against his conviction at Exeter on a charge of conspiring to effect a prsoner's escape. He had been sentenced to two years' lmtpriaonmeni ...

... spokesman at the be as. •ELIOUTE MISSES Dartmoor Prison Store Forced Open A anall ta i s antity of gelignite used in b operations during quarry work convicts is missing from the esp'osives store et Dartmoor Prison The store several nundred yards trout th- ...

... Dartmoor Man Dropped 20 Feet To Ground TRACKER DOGS USED TO AID POLICE SEARCH illiam Bright, aged 25, escaped from Dartmoor Prison to-day by sawing through the bars of his cell, squeezing out of the window, and dropping 20 feet to the ground. He is believed ...

... Prison Commissioners confirmed that there was a hunger strike at Dartmoor. The statement said: Yesterday in I)' Hall at Dartmoor Prison, 91 men, dining in assosiation, collected their dinners on the cafeteria principle. Not one of them acted in association ...

... POLICE USE DOGS The seam?' for 33-yearsold Leonard Gregory. at►o escaped last night from an outside working party at Dartmoor Prison Farm. centred to-day o the Heenock area. _ a few_ miles 1957 at Manchester Crown Court to floe years imprisonment for ...

... UWE Ralph / Mason. serving a sentence of fire years' imprisonment. escapei to-day from an outside working party near Dartmoor Prison. Working at Ric il e Prison Officers' quarters . ...

... has issued a work entitled Crime and the Services. During the course of his investigations he stayed at Maidstone and Dartmoor prisons, and at a Borstal institution. Dr. Spencer is convinced that Service life does not make criminals but it's not a cure ...

... DARTMOOR FIRE A are was discovered in the mat-making shop at Dartmoor Prison at about I p.m. to-day be the prison staff. Tavistock Fire Brigade was called and extinguished It quickly. A good deal of rnat-ynaking material was destroyed and sane damage ...