Prisoner statistics from John Howard’s prison inspections, 1776-1788, including prisoner counts for individual prisons in 1779.

Dataset sheets:

• summary-1776-1787: based on John Howard’s prisoner inspections in 1776, 1779, 1782, and 1787-8, totals for prisoners held as debtors, felons, and petty offenders in prisons in England and Wales, with prisoners held in hulks
• prisons-1779: prisoner counts for individual prisons
• county-totals-1779: county prisoner aggregates

Related datasets:

• imprisoned debtors in England about 1800
• prisoners in England and Wales from 1670: long-run trends
• punishment prevalence yearly by sex in England and Wales from 1715