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French Prison InteriorA French prison interior, showing the guards patrolling on a gallery balcony and the doors of some of the cells. Date: early 1930s
French Prison CourtAn empty courtroom in a French prison. Date: early 1930s
French Prison CellA stark cell in a French prison. Date: early 1930s
French Prison GuardA prison guard in a French prison ensures that a cell is safely under lock and key. Date: early 1930s
In the cell. Costumbrism. Painting
Port Arthur prisonMess Room, Penitentiary, Port Arthur, Tasmania, 1898 Date: 1898
Pentonville Prison 1895
The southern prisons of U. S. officersThe southern prisons of U.S. officers
Fleet Prison RuinsFleet Prison was notable as a debtors prison after the 17th century until it was demolished in 1845-46, having been rebuilt 3 times in 1381, 1666 and 1780. Date: 1846
Stockholm prisonLangholmen, the Central Prison in Stockholm 1889. Date: 1889
Prison Boats - Bahr-el-Ghazal, SudanPrison Boats by the " Sudd" - Bahr-el-Ghazal (southern region), Sudan Date: circa 1910s
September MassacresStanislas-Marie Maillard heads a tribunal which decides which of the prisoners detained in the prisons shall be guillotined as enemies of the Revolution. Date: 2-3 September 1792
Lostwithiel Gaol
Dick Turpins Cell in the Debtors Prison (now a museum), York, Yorkshire, England. Known as Pompeys Parlour, this was the cell of Turpin, Eugene Aram &c Date: 1950s
Location map of London prisons. Date: 1862
Map of London Courts and PrisonsMap of London Law Courts, Police Courts, County Courts and Prisons. Date: 1862
Prisons de Payas - Yakacik - Turkey - 20km from Iskenderun. Date: circa 1905
Clerkenwell Prison / 1862Prisoners are taken from Clerkenwell House of Detention to the courts in a horse-drawn coach. 1862
Newgate Prison / PhotoOriginally the principal west gate of London, Newgate was the target of Elizabeth Frys efforts to improve prison conditions. The exercise yard for condemned men. Date: circa 1900
Newgate / Oakum-PickingA convict, in his cell, oakum- picking. Date: 1873
Oastler in PrisonRichard Oastler, reformer, in his cell, number 12 Coffee Gallery, at the Fleet, London, where he is imprisoned for four years, occupying himself by writing The Fleet Papers Date: 1840-1844
Mettray : WorkshopMETTRAY (near Tours) Open agricultural and industrial colony for juvenile offenders, 1839-1939 : BOYS IN A WORKSHOP LEARN USEFUL TRADES Date: circa 1850
Mettray : HorticultureMETTRAY (near Tours) Open agricultural and industrial colony for juvenile offenders, 1839-1939 : BOYS LEARNING HORTICULTURE Date: circa 1850
Onboard the prison ship The WarriorPrisoners wash at low basins while observed by officers, onboard the convict hulk ship, The Warrior. The practice of confining offenders on board such ships was first adopted in England in 1776; it
National Workshop (Tailors) in the Prison of Clichy, ParisTailors at work in the debtors prison of Clichy in Paris, working away while one inmate reads aloud from the newspapers of the day
Ashford Schools, SurreyLocated on Woodthorpe Road, at Ashford, near Staines, Surrey, and opened in 1872 as the West London District School, it provided accommodation away from the workhouse for pauper children from
Chorlton Union Cottage Homes, Styal, CheshireMain avenue at Chorlton Union Cottage Homes, Styal, Cheshire. The homes were opened by the Chorlton Union in 1898 to house pauper children away from the workhouse
GlastonburyThe George Inn, at one time the prisons of the Abbey at Glastonbury, Somerset
Constantinople - Golden Gate, YedikuleThe Golden Gate, Yedikule - set in the seven towers, partly Byzantine structure and part Turkish a walled enclosure. Not used as a castle but two of the towers served as prisons
Man in the Iron MaskThe identity of the man in the iron mask has never been satisfactorily established : his mask was almost certainly of black velvet, not iron
Prison babiesWeighing a baby on its admission to Holloway prison. Holloway was a women-only prison where babies who were either born there or were under three months when their mothers were jailed
French Womens PrisonWomen prisoners at St Lazare, Paris, France, where young and old prisoners live in close proximity
Coup: DissidentsDissidents are despatched from Brest to French prisons in South America
Prisoners SummonedEach day, an official comes into the prisons with a list of those scheduled for guillotining : the pathetic scenes are a favourite subject for artists
WOMENs PRISON 1920SA corner of the French " Borstal" for girls at Fresne, where girls under age who have been convicted for small offences are kept and taught an ordinary school curriculum
Valletta Prison / MaltaThe interior of a prison cell at the Inquisitors Palace, St Lawrence, Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta
Russian Polit. PrisonersPolitical prisoners in Schlisselburg Fortress
Bagne De Brest - 1LE BAGNE DE BREST Convicts leave the notorious prison in the morning to go to work in the harbour or in naval establishments
Bagne De Brest - 2LE BAGNE DE BREST A dormitory at night
Cold-Bath Fields PrisonThe Water-Engine Court, where prisoners at hard labour work for an hour at a stretch
Visiting Prison MoroccoEuropean tourists visit a prison in Tangier, Morocco
Whitecross Prison / EganThe Whitecross Debtors prison was run by the justices of London and Middlesex
Devils Island / GuyanaA view of Devils Island, French Guyana, where Alfred Dreyfus was sent on 13 April 1895 and placed in solitary confinement
Holloway Prison / MayhewThe treadmill (treadwheel) and oakum shed with a detachment of prisoners at work at the wheel, and those who have been relieved, are employed to pick oakum
Andaman Island ConvictsPrisoners take their meals on the beach in the Andaman Islands
Debtors Certificate / 1735A certificate permitting a debtor in prison to go out and settle his affairs, signed by Townsend, the celebrated Bow Street Runner
New inmates arrive
Law / Prisons / BritainKINGs BENCH PRISON London Principal entrance Mainly a prison for debtors
