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Prisons Department

A listing of Prisons Department records can be found in AN 123, and in the various agency series listed below. These series include the records produced by each agency as well as records produced by subordinate agencies. In this group of records can be found files relating to prisoners, gaolers, convicts, Aboriginal people, murders, Chinese people, police, wardens, matrons, paupers, etc. In many cases individual personal names are included.