Prisons and Punishments of London by Richard Byrne (9780586210369)

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London has had many prisons, and the courts of London have sent many to public torment and execution. This survey touches on existing prisons but concentrates on the capital's vanished prisons - the Marshalsea, featured in Dickens' "Little Dorrit", the Bridewell, where female prisoners were flogged publicly in a specially built spectators' gallery, and Newgate, where the public could watch condemned men in their last hours as well as celebrate the execution. With accounts of people ranging from the highwayman Dick Turpin, to Elizabeth Fry, the reformer, this book includes eyewitness accounts, anecdotes and little-known facts. It touches on everything associated with prison life, from the inmates to the rough justice of the day.

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