Location Sand Pits Birmingham
Map location exact or closely approximate
Year opened unknown
Year closed unknown
Century of Operation 1800-1899
Building Type Police Station
'Police station, Sandpits: 2 cells; 319 male and 44 female prisoners locked up during 1851; largest number in confinement at any one time in 1851: 5; longest time for which any single prisoner has been confined in the cells: 8 1/2 hours; accommodation for 1 officer and 19 constables'
Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain III. Southern and Western District, Seventeenth Report (Parl. Papers, 1852, XXIV.1), p.44
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