TST: Correctional Institutions information for County Durham and places above it in the hierarchy

Correctional Institutions information for County Durham and places above it in the hierarchy

Extracts from (possibly) The Durham Chronicle entitled List of Former Executions relating to executions at Durham between 1732 and 1909 supplied by Alistair and Joan Mills.
Extracts from the Newcastle Courant relating to Criminals and Crime 1782-1789 and 1830-1851 supplied by George Bell

Australia, Transported Convicts: see these two Research Guides from The National Archives.
Blacksheepancestors: UK Executions
An extract from the book "Home Office 1782-1982" which includes some details about the prison service - Prisons over Two Centuries.

The Complete Newgate Calendar is now online.
Old Bailey Online - the Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court, 1674 to 1913: "A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court."
Derek Wilcox's Black Sheep Index - "an index of Victims and Villains (and some heroes too) extracted from newspaper reports of court cases and inquests between 1865-1900" (archived copy).
Capital punishment in the 18th & 19th centuries - many listings and articles.
About Prison History - from the Open University's International Centre for the History of Crime, Policing and Justice.
The Digital Panopticon - "allows you to search millions of records from around fifty datasets, relating to the lives of 90,000 convicts from the Old Bailey".