Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- PART I IN THE BEGINNING, 600–1500
- PART II SQUALOR CARCERIS, 1500–1750
- PART III EXPERIMENTATION WITH IMPRISONMENT, 1750–1863
- PART IV PUNISH AND BE DAMNED, 1863–1895
- PART V THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT, 1895–1965
- PART VI SAFE AND SECURE? 1965–2018
- Bibliography
- Index
PART II - SQUALOR CARCERIS, 1500–1750
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 September 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- PART I IN THE BEGINNING, 600–1500
- PART II SQUALOR CARCERIS, 1500–1750
- PART III EXPERIMENTATION WITH IMPRISONMENT, 1750–1863
- PART IV PUNISH AND BE DAMNED, 1863–1895
- PART V THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT, 1895–1965
- PART VI SAFE AND SECURE? 1965–2018
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The first shoots of an ideology of reform in houses of correction. Conditions in the counters and the Clink. Imprisonment as experienced by John Bunyan in Bedford and by Quakers throughout England. The exploitation of the incarcerated by gaolers whose prisons were a private enterprise. Disease and disaster struck prisons. Newgate and its most notorious inmates were celebrated on the page and on the stage. Popular detestation of prisons grew, culminating in their destruction during the Gordon riots.
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- Shades of the Prison HouseA History of Incarceration in the British Isles, pp. 43 - 44Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2019