English prisons
Subtitle: an architectural history
By: by Allan Brodie, Jane Croom, and James O. Davies.
Contributors: Croom, Jane.; Davies, James O.; English Heritage.
Publisher: English Heritage
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Swindon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
Subjects: Prisons -- Design and construction -- England.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: People and Buildings 1; title: 1 Prisons and Punishment before 1775 9; title: 2 Prisons in the Late Eighteenth Century 29; title: 3 National and Local Prisons, 1800-1835 54; title: 4 Pentonville and English Local Prisons, c 1835-1877 84; title: 5 Convict Prisons and Military Prisoners,; title: c 1840-1900 120; title: 6 English Prisons 1878-1921:The Early Years; title: of the Prison Commission 145; title: 7 New Ideals, New Problems: Prisons 1921-1963 173; title: 8 The Buildings of the Prison Department,; title: 1963-1986 198; title: 9 Prisons in the 1990s 221.