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DARTMOOR PRISON TO BE – DEMOLISHED

... DARTMOOR PRISON TO BE - DEMOLISHED Butler decides against new jail Mr R. A. Butler, the Home Secretary, has decided against a new prison. being built at Princetown, Dartmoor. The present one is to be progressively demolished when other accommodation becomes ...

Published: Friday 02 December 1960
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 111 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

CONVICTS in Dartmoor Prison were paid yesterday for the first time. Nearly 1300 of them were on the pa{ roll,

... CONVICTS in Dartmoor Prison were paid yesterday for the first time. Nearly 1300 of them were on the pa{ roll, and many of them broke down and wept as thef received the first official acknowledgment that tb;{v are worthy of their award. It was a pathetic ...

Published: Saturday 26 September 1987
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 201 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

PRISONER ESCAPES Norman Fenton (28) escaped from an outside working party at Dartmoor Prison yesterday ..

... PRISONER ESCAPES Norman Fenton (28) escaped from an outside working party at Dartmoor Prison yesterday afternoon. He was sentenced at Leeds Assizes on March 4, 1963, to five years imprisonment for armed robbery, and taking and driving away a motor vehicle ...

Published: Saturday 01 August 1964
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Advertisement | Words: 43 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Dartmoor Art

... Plymouth City Council to-day agreed to sponsor an exhibition of paintings by prisoners belonging to - The Art Group in Dartmoor Prison. It will be held in th: , city's art gallery in April. A;I pictures will be unsigned. ...

Published: Tuesday 05 November 1957
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 41 | Page: 10 | Tags: none

it’s over

... protest at Winchester Crown Court by six prisoners found not guilty after trial on riot charges following last year’s Dartmoor prison disturbance ended peacefully last night. ...

Published: Wednesday 10 July 1991
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 31 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Two Acquitted Of Tobacco Conspiracy

... officer at Dartmoor and a former prisoner not guilty of conspiring together and with persons unknown to convey tobacco into Dartmoor Prison. ...

Published: Wednesday 07 November 1956
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 45 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Escape From Dartmoor

... Escape From Dartmoor Harold Roy Webb (25) escaped from Dartmoor Prison during last night. He was missed from his cell at 7.30 this morning. Webb was sentenced at the Old Bailey in October 1946 for robbery with violence. His home is at Northwich. Cheshire ...

Published: Monday 19 November 1951
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 44 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Year of the rural mural

... 1 got out of Dartmoor Prison the other day mo when 1 got clear of Dartmoor Prison . .. gshem . . . when I put some distance between myself and Dart‘moor Prison the other day .. . damn . . . when I recall my wisit -to Dartmoor Prison the other day ...

Published: Saturday 23 June 1979
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 658 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

DISCONTENT ON DARTMOOR

... DISCONTENT ON DARTMOOR Prison officers at Dartmoor have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action in protest over manning levels. Two hundred officers were balloted yesterday following growing concern over planned reductions in staff at the ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1988
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 44 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Prisoner Recaptured

... Prisoner Recaptured Peter Frederick Crawley (23), made a 75-minute break from Dartmoor ' Prison yesterday.. He was recaptured at Ide, a village near Exeter. . Three days of heavy rain In Argentina’s Catamarca province caused the partial postponement of ...

Published: Monday 06 March 1961
Newspaper: Edinburgh Evening News
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 46 | Page: 5 | Tags: none