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• Prisoners -- South Africa
• Prisoners -- Personal narratives

• Forth from the dungeon. (Fridtjof-Karla Publications, 1958), by Christoffel Lessing (page images at HathiTrust)

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• First report. (Saul Solomon, 1866), by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Parliament. House. Select Committee on the Employment of Convicts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reports. (S. Solomon, 1866), by Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Parliament. Legislative Council. Select Committee to Consider and Report upon the Convict Department (page images at HathiTrust)

• Legislation urging the South African government to engage in meaningful negotiations with that country's Black majority hearing and markup before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and its Subcommittee on Africa, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, on H. Res. 373, June 24 and August 6, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O., 1987), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs and United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calls for the immediate release of detained children under emergency regulations in South Africa : hearing and markup before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session on House Resolution 141 and House Resolution 214, July 29, 1987. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1988), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Honderdzeventien dagen; Nazi-methoden onder het Apartheidsregiem in Zuid-Afrika. (Pegasus, 0169), by Ruth First (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legislation urging the South African government to engage in meaningful negotiations with that country's Black majority : hearing and markup before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and its Subcommittee on Africa, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, on H. Res. 373, June 24 and August 6, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1987), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs and United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Political imprisonment in South Africa. (Human Rights Commission and IDAF Publications, 1991), by Human Rights Commission (South Africa) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Escape from Pretoria, by Tim Jenkin
  • PDF at anc.org.za
  • HTML at anc.org.za

• How we escaped from Pretoria (W. Blackwood, 1901), by James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War, by Ben J. Viljoen, illust. by P. Van Breda (Gutenberg ebook)

• Méditations et souvenirs d'un prisonnier. Avec illustrations de Petit-Strix et deux portraits de l'auteur. Conflans-Honorine. (Edition de la revue L'Idée libre, 1921), by André Lorulot and E. Petit-Strix (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tagebuch eines in Italien im jahre 1848 gefangenen österreichischen offiziers. (gedruckt mit Wagner'schen schriften, 1850), by Emanuel de La Renodière (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mi-maʻamakịm (A. Y. Shtịbl, 1919), by Oscar Wilde and David Frischmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Notes of an exile to Van Dieman's Land comprising the incidents of the Canadian Rebellion in 1838, trial of the author in Canada, and subsequent appearance before Her Majesty's Court of Queen's Bench, in London, imprisonment in England, and transportation to Van Dieman's Land : also an account of the horrible sufferings endured by ninety political prisoners during a residence of six years in that land of British slavery, together with sketches of the isand, its history, productions, inhabitants, &c. &c. (s.n.], 1846), by Linus W. Miller (page images at HathiTrust)

• Z doby persekucí a kriminálů : vzpomínky českých novinářů a literátů (Nakl. B. Kočí, 1920), by Vincenc Červinka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A second chronicle of jails (The Talbot press, 1919), by Darrell Figgis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• La Roquette. Hommage à Notre-Dame-des-victoires, et souvenir affectueux à tous mes chers compagnons d'infortune. Journées des 24, 25, 26, 27 & 28 mai 1871. (P. M. Laroche, 1871), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Karl Christian von Gehrens, Pfarrers des Kirchspiels Felsberg und Altenburg, unter der vormaligen königlich westphälischen Regierung erlittene dreimalige Verhaftung und Exportation : als Beytrag zur Charakteristick der geheimen Policey von Ihm selbst beschrieben. Voran einige Bemerkungen über die im Jahr 1809 im Königreiche Westphalen ausgebrochene Insurrektion (K.C. von Gehren, 1815), by Karl Christian von Gehren (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Roquette. Hommage à Notre-Dame-des-victoires et souvenir affectueux à tous mes braves compagnons de captivité. Journées des 24, 25, 26, 27 et 28 mai 1871. (P. M. Laroche, 1873), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs d'un déporté; étapes d'un forçat politique. (E. Dentu, 1880), by Simon Mayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Roquette (Casterman, 1877), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendice à La Roquette (Lecoffre, 1889), by abbé Amodru (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Bastille am Plötzensee; Blätter aus meinem Gefängniss-Tagebuch. (W. Bracke, 1876), by Johann Joseph Most (page images at HathiTrust)
• Karl Christian von Gehrens, Pfarrers des Kirchspiels Felsberg und Altenburg, unter der vormaligen königlich westphälischen Regierung erlittene dreimalige Verhaftung und Exportation : als Beytrag zur Charakteristick der geheimen Policey von Ihm selbst beschrieben. Voran einige Bemerkungen über die im Jahr 1809 im Königreiche Westphalen ausgebrochene Insurrektion (K.C. von Gehren, 1815), by Karl Christian von Gehren (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Bastille am Plötzensee : Blätter aus meinem Gefängniss-Tagebuch. (W. Bracke, 1876), by Johann Joseph Most (page images at HathiTrust)

• The tale of my exile (Arya Office, 1922), by Barindra Kumar Ghosh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Za poli︠a︡rnym krugom : desi︠a︡tʹ let ssylki v Kolymske (Gosizdat, 1925), by G. V. T︠S︡yperovich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Viermal entflohen (J.H.W. Dietz, 1907), by L. G. Deĭch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aus den sibirischen Bleibergwerken : unedierte Briefe des zu lebenslänglicher Zwangsarbeit verurtheilten russischen Professors Vaszilij Jakszakov, mit den Zeichnungen und dem Autogramm des Verurtheilten (S. Cronbach, 1892), by Vasiliĭ I︠A︡ksakov (page images at HathiTrust)

• Iz ti͡uremnykh vospominaniĭ (Gos. izd-vo, 1924), by L. A. Volkenshteĭn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Viermal entflohen (J.H.W. Dietz, 1921), by L. G. Deĭch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aus den sibirischen Bleibergwerken : unedierte Briefe des zu lebenslänglicher Zwangsarbeit verurtheilten russischen Professors Vaszilij Jakszakov, mit den Zeichnungen und dem Autogramm des Verurtheilten. (S. Cronbach, 1893), by Vasiliĭ I︠A︡ksakov (page images at HathiTrust)

• A fragment of the prison experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman : (Order from Stella Comyn, 1919), by Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kate O'Hare's prison letters. (Appeal to Reason, 1919), by Kate Richards O'Hare (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Recollections of life in Van Dieman's Land (s.n.], 1850), by William Gates (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mémoires d'un Prisonnier d'État (second edition, 2 volumes, in French; Paris: Olivier-Fulgence, 1840), by Alexandre Andryane, contrib. by Federico Confalonieri
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• Mémoires d'un Prisonnier d'État (third edition, 2 volumes, in French; Paris: Gaume, 1850), by Alexandre Andryane, contrib. by Federico Confalonieri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires d'un Prisonnier d'État (fourth edition, 2 volumes, in French; Paris: Gaume Freres et J. Duprey, 1862), by Alexandre Andryane, contrib. by Federico Confalonieri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires d'un Prisonnier d'État au Spielberg (4 volumes, in French; Paris: Ladvocat, 1837-1838), by Alexandre Andryane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of a Prisoner of State in the Fortress of Spielberg (2 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1840), by Alexandre Andryane, trans. by Fortunato Prandi, contrib. by Piero Maroncelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorie d'un Prigioniero di Stato Nello Spielberg (4 volumes, in Italian; Milan: F. Sanvito, 1861), by Alexandre Andryane, trans. by Francesco Regonati (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mrs. Maybrick's own story my fifteen lost years (Morang, 1905), by Florence Elizabeth Maybrick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Ma translation, ou, La Force, Saint-Pélagie et Poissy (Chez les principaux libraires de France et de l'étranger, 1824), by Joseph Dominique Magalon (page images at HathiTrust)
• La vie à la Bastille souvenirs d'un prisonnier [i.e. Constantin de Renneville], d'après les documents d'archives et les mémoires (L. Michaud, 1908), by Constantin de Renneville and Albert Savine (page images at HathiTrust)

• A mummer's wife. (Vizetelly, 1885), by George Moore and George Barr McCutcheon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Fogságom története. (Kapható Cserő Gyula Ódön Kónyvkereskedésében, 1886), by Farkas Deák (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jail diary; being notes made by him in Vellore Jail from December 1921 to March 1922 (Swarajya, 1922), by C. Rajagopalachari (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Kariĭskai͡a tragedii͡a, 1889; vospominanii͡a i materialy. (Gos. izd-vo, 1920), by G. F. Osmolovskiĭ and Elizaveta. 1851-1943 Kovalʹskai͡a (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Dnevnik Karīĭt͡sa ("Novyĭ mīr,", 1906), by I͡A. Stefanovich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Stolen Years (Cleveland: Pennington Press, c1959), by Roger Touhy, contrib. by Ray Brennan (page images at HathiTrust)

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