The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day.
Publisher: The Grolier Society
Published: 1900
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: C; Pri
Table of contents: title: I. Chronicles of Newgate from the twelfth to the eighteenth century.; title: II. Chronicles of Newgate from the eighteenth century to its demolition; a sketch of the Tower.; title: III. Milbank penitentiary; an experiment in reformation.; title: 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.; title: V. Prisons over seas: deportation and colonization; British and American prisons of to-day.; title: VI. Early French prisons: Le Grand and Le Petit Ch©Đatelets; Vincennes-the Bastile-Loches; the galleys; revolutionary pri; title: 0