Title: The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day.
Authors: Griffiths, Arthur, 1838-1908
Publisher: The Grolier Society,
Subjects: Crime; Prisons; Criminals
Contents: I. Chronicles of Newgate from the twelfth to the eighteenth century.--II. Chronicles of Newgate from the eighteenth century to its demolition; a sketch of the Tower.--III. Milbank penitentiary; an experiment in reformation.--IV. Non-criminal prisons: English debtor's prisons and prisons of war; French war prisons; American war prisons; with references to those of other lands.--V. Prisons over seas: deportation and colonization; British and American prisons of to-day.--VI. Early French prisons: Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes-the Bastile-Loches; the galleys; revolutionary prisons.