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on 16 April 1847. On 1 May 1849 his appointment as commissioner of
Pentonville prison was renewed. In 1850, a board, called the Directors of Convict Prisons, was formed to replace the various bodies which had previously managed the different convict prisons. Jebb was appointed chairman of the board,
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Engineers.
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until he was seconded on 20 September 1839. The penal system was then in transition. In 1837 inquiries conducted in
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