Concept
Prison discipline
Images
Catalogue
- Pictures
- Online
A prisoner in Sing Sing Prison, New York, having water poured over him by a guard as a punishment, while restrained at the ankles and wrists: he dies. Wood engraving, 1869.
Date: [1869]Reference: 37753i
- Books
- Online
A defence of the system of solitary confinement of prisoners adopted by the state of Pennsylvania : with remarks on the origin, progress and extension of this species of prison discipline / by George W. Smith.
Smith, George W. (George Washington), 1800-1876.Date: 1833- Pictures
Two male convicts rotate a water engine as two more approach under the instruction of the warder in Coldbath Field's prison, London. Aquatint by J. Bluck after T. Rowlandson and A.C. Pugin.
Bluck, J., active 1791-1831.Date: [1808]Reference: 584998i- Pictures
Clerkenwell House of Correction, London: top, the oakum-shed and bottom, the needle-room. Wood engravings after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.
Fitzgerald, Michael, active 1871-1891.Date: 1874Reference: 585000i
- Books
- Online
An inquiry, whether crime and misery are produced or prevented, by our present system of prison discipline : Illustrated by descriptions of the Borough Compter, Tothill Fields Prison, the Jail at St. Albans, the Jail at Guilford, the Jail at Bristol, the Jails at Bury & Ilchester, the Mason de Force at Ghent, the Philadelphia Prison, the Penitentiary at Millbank, and the proceedings of the Ladies' Committee at Newgate / By Thomas Fowell Buxton.
Buxton, Thomas Fowell, Sir, 1786-1845.Date: 1818