Prisons Collection (page 4)

Man in the Iron Mask
The identity of the man in the iron mask has never been satisfactorily established : his mask was almost certainly of black velvet, not iron

Prison babies
Weighing 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 Prison
Women prisoners at St Lazare, Paris, France, where young and old prisoners live in close proximity

Coup: Dissidents
Dissidents are despatched from Brest to French prisons in South America

Prisoners Summoned
Each 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 1920S
A 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 / Malta
The interior of a prison cell at the Inquisitors Palace, St Lawrence, Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta

Russian Polit. Prisoners
Political prisoners in Schlisselburg Fortress

Bagne De Brest - 1
LE 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 - 2
LE BAGNE DE BREST A dormitory at night

Cold-Bath Fields Prison
The Water-Engine Court, where prisoners at hard labour work for an hour at a stretch

Visiting Prison Morocco
European tourists visit a prison in Tangier, Morocco

Whitecross Prison / Egan
The Whitecross Debtors prison was run by the justices of London and Middlesex

Devils Island / Guyana
A view of Devils Island, French Guyana, where Alfred Dreyfus was sent on 13 April 1895 and placed in solitary confinement

Holloway Prison / Mayhew
The 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 Convicts
Prisoners take their meals on the beach in the Andaman Islands

Debtors Certificate / 1735
A 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 / Britain
KINGs BENCH PRISON London Principal entrance Mainly a prison for debtors

Prison Hulk / Portsmouth
Prison Hulk, Portsmouth

Lollards Prison
Part of Lambeth Palace, designed to house the followers of Wyclif - known as Lollards - who opposed some of the teachings of the Church

Wood Street Compter
WOOD STREET COMPTER used mostly for debtors but also as an overflow for Newgate : demolished in 1816

Savoy Prison, London
Part of the old Savoy Palace, used at this time as a military prison

Rus / Jap War: Convicts
Desperate in the face of escalating defeat, the Russian army accepts convicts, released from their chains in Siberian prisons

Newgate Prison 1735
Prisoners in Newgate prison

Dartmoor Prison
A splendid birds-eye view of the recently built Dartmoor Prison and English Barracks. Prisoners from the Napoleonic Wars helped build the jail

Bridewell Prison
View of the exterior of Bridewell

Discipline at Newgate
General indiscipline amongst male inmates (young and old) in a dormitory cell at Newgate

Mettray : a Dormitory
METTRAY (near Tours) Open agricultural and industrial colony for juvenile offenders, 1839-1939 : BOYS IN THEIR DORMITORY, WHERE THEY SLEEP IN HAMMOCKS

French Prisoners Lecture
Prisoners in the Prison de Fresnes, Paris, are lectured on the dangers of alcoholism

Prisoner Escapes / Italy
Italian convicts escape from Finalmarina by tying sheets together and cutting through the mesh on the windows

Tothill Fields Prison
Bridewell Prison also called Tothill Fields as it stood in an area of Westminster of the same name. It housed women and boys under 17. The boys given their dinner. Date: 1862

Newgate Prison / Press
Originally the principal west gate of London, Newgate was the target of Elizabeth Frys efforts to improve prison conditions. A gathering in the Newgate Press Yard

Newgate Prison / Cell
Originally the principal west gate of London, Newgate was the target of Elizabeth Frys efforts to improve prison conditions. The condemned cell waiting for an occupant

Newgate Prison / Dore
Originally the principal west gate of London, Newgate was the target of Elizabeth Frys efforts to improve prison conditions. Men in the exercise yard

Newgate Prison / Galleries
Originally the principal west gate of London, Newgate was the target of Elizabeth Frys efforts to improve prison conditions. The deserted Galleries

Dartmoor Prison / 1907
Prisoners of Dartmoor go to work on the moors. Dartmoor was built in Princetown, Devon, in 1806-9 to house French prisoners during the Napoleonic Wars

Treadmill / Coldbath Field
Prisoners working at the treadmill and others exercising in the vagrants prison, Coldbath Fields. The first treadmill was installed in Brixton Prison in 1817

Oakum Shed / Prison / 1874
Inmates are supervised as they pick oakum

Prisons / Fleet
Debtors grate

Wandsworth Prison / Mayhew
Prisoners turning out after dinner in the Surrey house of correction, part of Wandsworth Prison. Note that the prisoners are wearing masks

Fleet Prison Courtyard
Prisoners in the courtyard exercising and playing racquets

A Debtors Prison
The Primrose family join their father when he is thrown into a debtors prison by the evil Squire Thornhill

Prison Hulk, Woolwich
Convicts from the hulks anchored in the Thames off Woolwich, at work on the river-bank handling timber with the aid of a huge lifting device

Kings Bench (Microcosm)
Located in St Georges Fields, south of the Thames : a debtors prison notorious for the laxness of its rules - it housed 30 gin shops, as well as facilities for dining

Dresden Prison 1930S
The interior of a prison in Dresden, Germany, which in its day was one of the most up-to- date in Europe. The central tower was built so that one person could watch 800 inmates

Newgate Chapel 1809
The Chapel of Newgate Prison, where prisoners were exhorted to repent of their evil ways

Bridewell, London
Women prisoners, many with children, doss down in the Pass-Room at Bridewell, for the reception of short-term female offenders. It is located near Blackfriars

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