| No. in Admissions Register: | 36 |
| Date of admission: | 9 July 1853 |
| Weekly payments: | - |
| Age: | 12 |
| Education: | Indifferent |
| Previous employment: | None |
| Crimes, how often and in what prison: | Various prisons, 8 |
| Training in reformatory: | Farm labourer- |
| When left reformatory: | 4 June 1854 |
| Parentage and family: | Both dead |
| Residence: | - |
| Trade of father: | - |
| With whom the boy is placed: | - |
| Address: | - |
| Trade: | - |
12 September 1853 In an extensive report of an inquiry into brutal treatment in Birmingham Gaol in Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, Monday 12 September 1853 p.6 col.3, is the following: …boys from the Reformatory School were then examined as to the state of discipline at the time they were in the gaol:- … Lloyd Thomas, aged ten, imprisoned four times, committed the last time in April for three months, said – I was punished for knocking at the wall. I was taken before the Governor, and was sentenced to three days in the strait jacket, fourteen nights without bed and gas before ten o’clock, and three days bread and water. It was about the 15th of May. I was put into the strait jacket just after breakfast, and taken off just after supper, for three days successively. This was about a month after I went into the gaol. I had one of the collars on, but could walk about my cell. – [Some difficulty arose as to the date given by the boy, and Captain Williams remarked that the punishment of this boy, and also of the boy previously examined [William Burns, boy 25], were not entered in the punishment book].
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