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• John Howard and the prison-world of Europe (Jackson and Walford, 1850), by William Hepworth Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Freiheitsstrafe und Gefängniswesen in Österreich von der Theresiana bis zur Gegenwart (U. Moser, 1916), by Hugo Hoegel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Österreichische strafanstalten. (Wiener verlag, 1905), by Stefan Grossmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• German and Austrian Prisons: Prisons of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Austria-Hungary; the Fortresses of Magdeburg and Spielberg, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

• Österreichische strafanstalten. (Wiener verlag, 1905), by Stefan Grossmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Österreichische strafanstalten. (Wiener verlag, 1905), by Stefan Grossmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Les établissements pénitentiaires en France et aux colonies (M. Lévy Frères, 1875), by comte d' Haussonville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires de Linguet sur la Bastille, et de Dusaulx, sur le 14 juillet : avec des notices, des notes et des eclaircissemens historiques (Baudouin frères, 1822), by Simon Nicolas Henri Linguet, Jean Dusaulx, Fs. Barrière, St.-A. Berville, and John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tortures et supplices en France (H. Daragon, 1909), by Fernand Mitton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le Monde criminel : histoire des prisons d'État, des prisons criminelles, des bagnes et de leurs habitants. (B. Renault, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Légendes et archives de la Bastille (Librairie Hachette et cie, 1902), by Frantz Funck-Brentano and Victorien Sardou (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of the Bastile, and of its principal captives, by R. A. Davenport (Gutenberg ebook)
• Modern French Prisons: Bicêtre; St. Pélagie; St. Lazare; La Force; The Conciergerie; La Grande and La Petite Roquettes; Mazas; La Santé, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)
• Early French Prisons: Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes; The Bastile; Loches; The Galleys; Revolutionary Prisons, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)
• Non-Criminal Prisons: English Debtor's Prisons and Prisons of War; French War Prisons; American War Prisons with References to Those of Other Lands, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

• Les geoles de province sous la terreur; rʹecits de prisonniers. (Michaud, 1911), by Albert Savine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The torments of Protestant slaves in the French king's galleys, and in the dungeons of Marseilles, 1686-1707 A.D. (E. Stock, 1908), by Edward Arber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Les convulsions de Paris ... (Hachette et cie, 1897), by Maxime Du Camp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Au pied de l'échafaud. Souvenirs de la Roquette (M. Dreyfous, 1893), by J. Faure (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenirs de la Petite et de la Grand Roquette, recueillis de différents côtés et mis en order par l'abbé Moreau. (J. Rouff, 1880), by Georges Moreau and abbé Crozes (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Bastille des comédiens : le For l'Évêque (A. Fontemoing, 1903), by Frantz Funck-Brentano (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire de la Conciergerie du Palais de Paris depuis ses origines jusqu'a nos jours, 1031-1892 (May & Motteroz, 1892), by Eugène Pottet (page images at HathiTrust)

• Une maison de détention sous la Terreur : l'Hôtel des Bénédictins anglais ("Schola", 1905), by Jean de La Laurencie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Les exécutions criminelles à Vire du XIVe au XVIe siècle. (Impr. C. Pailhé, 1927), by V. Hunger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• German and Austrian Prisons: Prisons of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Austria-Hungary; the Fortresses of Magdeburg and Spielberg, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

• Aus dem Zuchthause. (H. Walther, 1907), by Hans Leuss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An account of the principal lazarettos in Europe : with various papers relative to the plague, together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals, and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland (Printed for J. Johnson, D. Dilly, and T. Cadell, 1791), by John Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisons Over Seas: Deportation and Colonization; British and American Prisons of To-day, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)
• Millbank Penitentiary: An Experiment in Reformation, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)
• Non-Criminal Prisons: English Debtor's Prisons and Prisons of War; French War Prisons; American War Prisons with References to Those of Other Lands, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

• A plea for the appointment of police matrons (White Ribbon Co. for the National British Women's Temperance Association, 1894), by Florence Balgarnie and National British Women's Temperance Association (page images at HathiTrust)

• The work of school boards for the neglected and destitute children : a paper read in the Education Section of the Congress of the Social Science Association, held at Leeds, October, 1871 (Arrowsmith, 1871), by Mary Carpenter and England) Social Science Association (Great Britain). Congress (1871 : Leeds (page images at HathiTrust)

• Irish Rebels in English Prisons: A Record of Prison Life (New York: P. J. Kenedy, 1899), by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Little Dorrit. (Chapman and Hall, 1865), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Workhouses and Women's Work: Reprinted from The Church of England Monthly Review; Also, a Paper on the Condition of Workhouses, Read in the Social Economy Department of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at Birmingham, October, 1857 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858), by Louisa Twining
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• Recollections of Life and Work: Being the Autobiography of Louisa Twining (London: E. Arnold, 1893), by Louisa Twining
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• The Pauper, the Thief, and the Convict, by Thomas Archer (HTML at victorianlondon.org)

• The Elizabethan Tower of London : the Haiward and Gascoyne plan of 1597 (London Topographical Society :, 2001), by Anna Keay (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Tower of London (G. Bell & Sons, 1901), by Ronald Sutherland Gower (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short history of the Tower of London : with a list of the interesting curiosities contained in the armories and regalia (Printed by J. Wheeler :, 1845), by Joseph Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authorized guide to the Tower of London (Her Majesty's Stationary Office, by Harrison and sons, 1897), by W. J. Loftie and Harold Arthur Lee Dillon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Authorized guide to the Tower of London (Her Majesty's Stationary Office, by Harrison and sons, 1897), by W. J. Loftie and Harold Arthur Lee Dillon (page images at HathiTrust)

• Recollections and reflections (Saint Catherine Press, 1918), by Coles Pasha (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• An account of the principal lazarettos in Europe : with various papers relative to the plague, together with further observations on some foreign prisons and hospitals, and additional remarks on the present state of those in Great Britain and Ireland (Printed for J. Johnson, D. Dilly, and T. Cadell, 1791), by John Howard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Irish convict reform. The intermediate prisons, a mistake. (McGlashan & Gill, 1863), by Charles Bernard Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tre mesi di prigionia a San Francesco ed alla Concordia : ricordi (F.lli de Angelis, 1869), by Gennaro De Angelis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Italian Prisons: St. Angelo; the Piombi; the Vicaria; Prisons of the Roman Inquisition, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

• Prigioni e prigionieri in Mantova : dal secolo XIII al XIX (Mantellate, 1888), by Antonino Bertolotti (page images at HathiTrust)

• An examination of the official reply of the Neapolitan government / Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets (John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1859), by W. E. Gladstone (page images at HathiTrust)

• Spanish Prisons: The Inquisition at Home and Abroad, Prisons Past and Present, by Arthur Griffiths (Gutenberg ebook)

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