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• The neglect of the effectual separation of prisoners : and the want of good order and religious oeconomy in our prisons, the chief cause of the frequent thefts and violences committed, and the horrible consequences attending them : in fifteen letters (sold by Dodsley ..., Sewell ..., and Bew ..., 1784), by Jonas Hanway, J. Bew, John Sewel, and I. Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 by William Eyres :, 1789), by John Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• An oration on the oppression of jailors : which was spoken in the Fleet prison, on the 20th of February 1730/1 (as advertised in the Daily-Post of that day) and carefully taken in short-hand by one of the audience, who hopes he shall not incur the displeasure of the orator in publishing a thing so manifestly tending to the good of the publick. (Printed for A. Moore, near St. Pa'uls [sic]; and sold at the pamphlet-shops in London and Westminster, 1731), by A. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The state of the prisons in England and Wales : with preliminary observations, and an account of some foreign prisons (Printed by William Eyres, 1777), by John Howard and William Eyres (page images at HathiTrust)
• Appendix to The state of the prisons in England and Wales, &c. (Printed by William Eyres, and sold by T. Cadell, in the Strand, and N. Conant in Fleet-Street, London, 1780), by John Howard, Isaac Taylor, William Eyres, Nathaniel Conant, and T. Cadell (page images at HathiTrust)
• VVil: Bagnal's ghost. Or the merry devill of Gadmunton. In his perambulation of the prisons of London. / By E. Gayton, Esq;. (London, : Printed by W. Wilson, for Thomas Johnson at the Golden-Key in St. Pauls Church-yard., 1655), by Edmund Gayton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• General considerations relating to a bill for regulating the abuses of prisons and pretended priviledg'd places as far as relates to the prisons. ([London : s.n., 1697]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To his Excellencie, the Earl of Forth, Lord Generall of His Majesties army: the humble petition of divers poor prisoners in Oxford-castle, whose names are hereunder written who humble shew, that your poor petitioners have there remained in hard imprisonment, for the space of seven weeks and upwards, ... Wherefore they most humbly beseech your Excellencie to take their distressed condition into your pious consideration; ... Edw. Bradney. ... Jo: Mountgomery. Ordered by the Commons in Parliament, that this petition be forthwith printed and published. Hen: Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com. (London : printed for Edw. Husbands, and are to be sold at his shop in the Middle-Temple, February 15. 1642. [i.e. 1643]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The case of George Taylor, Esq; Marshal of the King's Bench. In relation to a clause added to the Bill, intitled, An Act for rgulating [sic] the abuses in prisons and pretended priviledged places. ([London : s.n., 1701?]), by George Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An oration on the oppression of jailors : which was spoken in the Fleet prison, on the 20th of February 1730/1 (as advertised in the Daily-Post of that day) and carefully taken in short-hand by one of the audience, who hopes he shall not incur the displeasure of the orator in publishing a thing so manifestly tending to the good of the publick. (Printed for A. Moore, near St. Pa'uls [sic]; and sold at the pamphlet-shops in London and Westminster, 1731), by A. Moore (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Goalers [sic] extortion exposed, or, The Prisoners grievances most humbly offered and submitted to the consideration and regulation of both Houses of Parliament. (London : Printed and published by Randal Taylor ..., [1690]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Proposals for Building, in Every County, a Working-Alms-House or Hospital: as the Best Expedient to Perfect the Trade and Manufactory of Linnen Cloth, by Richard Haines (Gutenberg ebook)

• True report of the poor, maintained and imployed in the work-house, Easter 1703 ([London] : [publisher not identified], [1703], 1703), by England) Governors for the Poor (London (page images at HathiTrust)

• A companion for debtors and prisoners, and advice to creditors in ten letters from a gentleman in prison, to a member of Parliament : wherein, first, the villianies [sic] and insolencies of bayliffs, secondly, the evil practices of jaylers and pretended solicitors, and thirdly, the irregularities of prisons in general, are briefly detected and exposed : together with a particular description of Newgate, the Marshallsea, the two compters, Ludgate, the Fleet, and Kings Bench, with reflections upon prisons in general, and proposals for regulating the whole. (London : Printed and sold by A. Baldwin ..., 1699), by Gentleman in prison E. S. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Certaine characters and essayes of prison and prisoners. Compiled by Nouus Homo a prisoner in the kings bench (London : Printed by William Iones dwelling in Red Crosse streete, 1618), by 1594?-1668 G. M. (Geffray Minshull) (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Mr. Dowdall's just and sober vindication, in opposition to several injustices practised against him, by some of his fellow prisoners in the gate-house prison of Westminster, although reputed priests, Jesuits, and sufferers for Christs sake (London : printed [by W. Downing] for Gerard Dowdall, in Westminster Gate-House, 1681), by Gerard Dowdall (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The Goalers [sic] extortion exposed, or, The Prisoners grievances most humbly offered and submitted to the consideration and regulation of both Houses of Parliament. (London : Printed and published by Randal Taylor ..., [1690]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The praise and vertue of a iayle, and iaylers With the most excellent mysterie, and necessary vse of all sorts of hanging. Also a touch at Tyburne for a period, and the authors free leaue to let them be hanged, who are offended at the booke without cause. By Iohn Taylor. (London : Printed by I[ohn] H[aviland] for R[ichard] B[adger], 1623), by John Taylor (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An Historical Description of the Tower of London, and its Curiosities (London: T. Carnan, 1784) (page images at HathiTrust)

• An exact abridgment of the records in the Tower of London : from the reign of King Edward the second, unto King Richard the third, of all Parliaments holden in each kings reign, and the several acts in every Parliament : together with the names and titles of all the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons, summoned to every of the said Parliaments (Printed for William Leake, 1656), by Robert Cotton, William Prynne, England) Tower of London (London, and Great Britain Parliament (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mr. Allen's vindication, or, Remarks upon a late scandalous pamphlet, entituled, A strange and new discovery, &c. (London : [s.n.], Printed in the Year 1700), by A. B. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Acts and orders. 1632-03-7 ([London : R. Young, 1633?]), by City of London (England). Lord Mayor and City of London (England). Court of Aldermen (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A second accompt of what progress hath been hitherto made with such other particulars as are conceived necessary for the advancement and prefecting of a publick design for the accommodation, relief, and benefit of the prisoners of the compter in the Poultry, upon the intending re-building thereof / humbly presented to superiours, and to all worthy benefactors. (London : Printed by William Godbid, 1670), by Humphry Gyffard (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• An enquiry into the causes of the frequent executions at Tyburn : and a proposal for some regulations concerning felons in prison, and the good effects to be expected from them : to which is added a discourse on transportation and a method to render that punishment more effectual (Printed and sold by J. Roberts ..., 1725), by Bernard Mandeville (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Letter writ to Sir John Robinson, Lieutenant of the Tower, By Edward Bagshvve [sic], close-prisoner there. ([London? : s.n, 1663/4 [i.e. 1664]), by Edward Bagshaw (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An Account of a new and strange discovery that was made by John Sheirly, alias Davis, & Joseph Fisher, the same day of their execution relating to the ordinary of Newgate : with a true copy of the petition, that was presented to the Lord Mayor, by the prisoners of Newgate, concerning the same, with any other remarkable particulars. (London : Printed for the author, 1700) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• To the Parlament of the Common-Wealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. The humble petition of Edward Dendy. ([London : s.n., 1654]), by Edward Dendy (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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• English Prisons To-Day: Being the Report of the Prison System Enquiry Committee (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922), by Prison System Enquiry Committee (Great Britain), ed. by Stephen Hobhouse and Fenner Brockway (multiple formats a archive.org)
• A Holiday in Gaol (New York: Macmillan, 1911), by Frederic Martyn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penitentiaries and Reformatories, by Felicia Skene (HTML at Indiana)
• Scenes from a Silent World: or Prisons and Their Inmates, by Felicia Skene (HTML at Indiana)
• The State of the Prisons in England and Wales, with Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign Prisons (first edition; Warrington: Printed by W. Eyres and sold by T. Cadell, 1777), by John Howard (multiple formats at Google)
• Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences (London: William Heinemann, 1914), by Constance Lytton (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Story of Crime: From the Cradle to the Grave (London: T. Werner Laurie, ca. 1908), by Hargrave Lee Adam
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• Notes on a visit made to some of the prisons in Scotland and the north of England (Printed for A. Constable and Co., 1819), by Joseph John Gurney (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new way with crime (Williams and Norgate, 1928), by Fenner Brockway (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Revelations of prison life (Garland Pub., 1984), by George Laval Chesterton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Old Bailey experience. Criminal jurisprudence and the actual working of our penal code of laws. Also, an essay on prison discipline, to which is added, a history of the crimes committed by offenders in the present day. (J. Fraser, 1833), by Thomas Wontner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the treatment of convicts in Ireland, with some remarks on the same in England, by four visiting justices of the West Riding Prison at Wakefield: [E. B. Wheatley Balme, Edward Akroyd, Samuel Waterhouse and Thomas Foljame]. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., 1862), by Edward Balme Wheatley Balme (page images at HathiTrust)
• The punishment and prevention of crime (Macmillan and co., 1885), by Edmund F. Du Cane (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the rise, progress, and present state, of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts throughout England and Wales. (Printed by Nichols and Son, 1802), by James Neild (page images at HathiTrust)
• Penal discipline (G. Routledge & sons, 1922), by Mary Louisa Gordon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English prisons today; being the report of the Prison System Enquiry Committee (Longmans, Green and Co., 1922), by Prison System Enquiry Committee (Great Britain), Fenner Brockway, and Stephen Hobhouse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The modern prison curriculum : a general review of our penal system (Macmillan, 1912), by R. F. Quinton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime and criminals, 1876-1910 (Longmans, Green and co., 1910), by R. F. Quinton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An inquiry, whether crime and misery are produced or prevented, by our present system of prison discipline. : Illustrated by descriptions of the Borough Compter, Tothill Fields prison, the jail at St. Albans, the jail at Guildford, the jail at Bristol, the jails at bury & Ilchester, the Laison de force at Ghent, the Philadelphia prison, the penitentiary at Hillbank, and the proceedings of the ladies' committee at New gate. (J. and A. Arch, 1818), by Thomas Fowell Buxton (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'état actuel et de la réforme des prisons de la Grande-Bretagne. Extraits des rapports officiels publiés par ordre du Parlement (Imprimerie royale, 1838), by L.-M. Moreau-Christophe, Whitworth Russell, William Crawford, and France. Ministère de l'iutérieur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Irish rebels in English prisons: a record of prison life. (D. A. Sadlier, 1878), by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (page images at HathiTrust)
• A C. O. in prison (No-Conscription Fellowship, 1916), by W. J. Chamberlain and No-Conscription Fellowship (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 18 months' imprisonment (George Routledge and Sons, 1883), by Donald Shaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• I was in prison : a plea for the amelioration of the criminal law (William Reeves, 1893), by R. J. and Humanitarian League (London) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jail journal ; or, Five years in British prisons. Commenced on board the Shearwater steamer, in Dublin bay, continued at Spike island--on board the Scourge war steamer--on board the Dromedary hulk, Bermuda--on board the Neptune convict ship--at Pernambuco--at the cape of Good Hope (during the anti-convict rebellion)--at Van Diemen's land--at Sydney--at Tahiti--at San Francisco--at Greytown--and concluded at no. 3, pier, North river, New York (J. Corrigan, 1864), by John Mitchel (page images at HathiTrust)
• John Howard: prison reformer. (Archer House, 1958), by D. L. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of the origin and results of ladies' prison associations with hints for the formation of local associations. (J. and A. Arch [etc.], 1832), by British Society of Ladies for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our prisons (H. Rees, ltd., 1911), by Arthur Paterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The convict of to-day (C. Palmer, 1927), by Sydney Alexander Mosely (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Betragtninger over de nyere Britiske fængsler, især med hensyn til nødendigheden af en forbedring i fangepleien i Norge (J. Lehmann, 1823), by Frederik Holst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the philosophy of criminal jurisprudence, being an investigation of the principles necessary to be kept in view during the revision of the penal code, with remarks on penitentiary prisions (R. Hunter, etc., 1819), by J. E. Bicheno (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on a visit made to some of the prisons in Scotland and the north of England (Printed for A. Constable and Co., 1819), by Joseph John Gurney (page images at HathiTrust)
• 'I appeal unto Cæsar' : the case of the conscientious objector (George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1917), by Henry Hobhouse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wards of the state : an unofficial view of prison and the prisoner (Herbert and Daniel, 1913), by Tighe Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisoners of war in Britain 1756 to 1815; a record of their lives, their romance and their sufferings (H. Milford, 1914), by Francis Abell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prison discipline. The fallacies of The Times. ([London?, 1844), by Joseph Adshead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our present gaol system deeply depraving to the prisoner and a positive evil to the community : some remedies proposed (s.n.], 1847), by Joseph Adshead (page images at HathiTrust)
• How criminals are made and prevented; a retrospect of forty years (T. F. Unwin, 1913), by J. W. Horsley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Punishment and personality (Mills & Boon, limited, 1927), by Harold Begbie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strafensystem und gefängniswesen in England. (J. Guttentag, 1887), by P. F. Aschrott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Howard, the philanthropist, and his friends. (Hodder and Stoughton, 1884), by John Stoughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Convict life : or, Revelations concerning convicts and convict prisons (Wyman & Sons, 1880), by Ticket-of-leave man (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the manner in which sentences of penal servitude are carried out in England / Talbot collection of British pamphlets (Printed at Her Majesty's convict prison, Millbank, 1882), by Edmund F. Du Cane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jail journal : commenced on board the "Shearwater" steamer, in Dublin bay, continued at Spike island--on board the "Scourge" war steamer--on board the "Dromedary" hulk, Bermuda--on board the "Neptune" convict ship--at Pernambuco--at the cape of Good Hope (during the anti-convict rebellion)--at Van Diemen's land--at Sydney--at Tahiti--at San Francisco--at Greytown--and concluding at no. 3. pier, North river, New York ; with an introductory narrative of transactions in Ireland (M. H. Gill, 1914), by John Mitchel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Her Majesty's prisons: their effects and defects. (S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisons and prisoners (M. F. Mansfield and Company, 1899), by J. W. Horsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to reform our prison system. (Humanitarian League, 1907), by H. J. B. Montgomery and England). Criminal Law and Prison Reform Department Humanitarian League (London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• O'Donovan Rossa's prison life : six years in six English prisons. (P. J. Kenedy, 1874), by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the manner in which sentences of penal servitude are carried out in England. (London, 1872), by Edmund F. Du Cane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on prisons. (Printed by J. Hedderwick, 1810), by Stevenson MacGill (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the prisons in England, Scotland, and Wales : extending to various places therein assigned, not for the debtor only, but for felons also, and other less criminal offenders. Together with some useful documents, observations, and remarks, adapted to explain and improve the condition of prisoners in general (Printed by J. Nichols and Son, 1812), by James Neild (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Society for the discharge and relief of persons imprisoned for small debts throughout England and Wales. (Printed by J. Nichols and Son, 1808), by James Neild (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defects in the criminal administration and penal legislation of Great Britain and Ireland, with remedial suggestions. (F. B. Kitto, 1872), by William Tallack and England) Howard Association (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the second report of the inspectors of prisons for the Home District : addressed to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Home Department (printed by W. Clowes and Sons ... for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1837), by Great Britain Home Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The police encyclopaedia (The Waverly book company, ltd., 1910), by Hargrave Lee Adam and Robert Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Irisleabhar príosúin (M. H. Mac Goill, 1910), by John Mitchel and Eoghan Ó Neachtain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prison despotism : a personal narrative. (National publishing, 1885), by McCook Weir (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the discipline and construction of Portland prison, and its connection with the system of convict discipline now in operation (H.M. Stationery office, 1850), by Great Britain. Surveyor-General of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jail journal; or, Five years in British prisons. (Cameron, Ferugson & Co., 1876), by John Mitchel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life of Elizabeth Fry ([s.n.], 1872), by Susanna Corder (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry, whether crime and misery are produced or prevented, by our present system of prison discipline : illustrated by descriptions of the Borough Compter. Tothill Fields. The jails at St. Albans, and at Guildford. The jail at Bury. The Maison de force at Ghent. The Philadelphia prison. The penitentiary at Millbank. And the proceedings of the ladies' committee at Newgate (Printed for Archibald Constable & Co. ;, 1818), by Thomas Fowell Buxton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty-five years in six prisons (T. F. Unwin ltd., 1925), by Eustace Jervis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays on law reform, commercial policy, banks, penitentiaries, etc. in Great Britain and the United States of America. By J. L. Tellkampf. (Williams and Norgate, 1859), by J. L. Tellkampf (page images at HathiTrust)
• The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an account of some foreign prisons. (Printed by William Eyres, and sold by T. Cadell in the Strand, and N. Conant in Fleet Street, London., 1777), by John Howard, Nathaniel Conant, T. Cadell, and William Eyres (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minutes of evidence taken of the departmental committee on prisons : with appendices and index. (Printed for H.M.S.O. by Eyre & Spottiwoode, 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
• My prison life (Chapman and Hall, 1907), by Jabez Spencer Balfour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rules proposed for the government of gaols, houses of correction, and penitentiaries; compiled from various acts of Parliament for the regulation of prisons, and selected from rules in force at the best conducted gaols in Europe : to which are added plans of prisons on improved principles, and a description, with plates, of a corn mill and water mill adapted for the employment of prisoners. (Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders, 1820) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison, a dialogue ... (Williams and Norgate, 1891), by H. B. Brewster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays on law reform, commercial policy, banks, penitentiaries, etc. in Great Britain and the United States of America. (Puttkammer & Mühlbrecht, 1875), by J. L. Tellkampf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etat des prisons, des hôspital et des maisons de force (Maradan, 1791), by John Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of the origin and results of ladies' prison associations : with hints for the formation of local associations. (J. and A. Arch, 1827), by Elizabeth Gurney Fry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on a visit made to some of the prisons in Scotland and the north of England, in company with Elizabeth Fry; with some general observations on the subject of prison discipline. (Printed for A. Constable and Co., 1819), by Joseph John Gurney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essayes and characters of a prison and prisoners. (Reprinted for W. and C. Tait, by J. Ballantyne, 1821), by 1594?-1668 G. M. (Geffray Minshull) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report. (London., between 1000 and 1999), by Great Britain. Convict Prisons Directors (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on the buildings of English prisons. ([publisher not identified], 1909), by R. G. Alford (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report of the Commissioners of Prisons. (Her Majesty's Stationery Office., between 1000 and 1999), by Great Britain. Prison Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorandum of a late visit to some of the principal hospitals, prisons, &c. in France, Scotland, and England. Embraced in a letter to the Acting Committee of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. (E. G. Dorsey, Printer, 1840), by Frederick A. Packard (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prisons to-day; being the report of the Prison System Enquiry Committee. (Longmans, Green, 1922), by Prison System Enquiry Committee, Fenner Brockway, and Stephen Hobhouse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jottings from jail; notes and papers on prison matters (T.F. Unwin, 1887), by J. W. Horsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of the rise, progress, and present state of the Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts throughout England and Wales (Printed by J. Nichols and Son, 1808), by James Neild and Society for the Discharge and Relief of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crime and misery. (Printed for J. and A. Arch [etc.], 1818), by Thomas Fowell Buxton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extracts from the second report of (William Crawford and Whitworth Russell, esqs.) the inspectors of prisons for the home district; addressed to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Home Department ... (Republished by the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, 1838), by Great Britain Home Office, Whitworth Russell, Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, and Great Britain. Inspectors of Prisons for the Home District (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry, whether crime and misery are produced or prevented, by our present system of prison discipline. Illustrated by descriptions of the Borough Compter, Tothill Fields prison, the jail at St. Albans, the jail at Guildford, the jail at Bristol, the jails at Bury & Ilchester, the Maison de force at Ghent, the Philadelphia prison, the penitentiary at Millbank, and the proceedings of the ladies' committee at Newgate. (J. and A. Arch [etc.], 1818), by Thomas Fowell Buxton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the working of the penal servitude acts [and Minutes of evidence] (H.M.Stationery office, 1879), by Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Penal Servitude Acts, John Wodehouse, and Great Britain. Royal Commission on the working of the Penal Servitude Acts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second report of the Surveyor-General of Prisons. (Printed by W. Clowes for H.M.S.O., 1847), by Great Britain. Surveyor-General of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minutes of evidence taken before the Commissioners ... (T.R. Harrison, 1847), by Great Britain. Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Management of Millbank Prison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the select committee of the House of Lords appointed to inquire into the present state of the several gaols and houses of correction in England and Wales. (HMPO?], 1835), by Great Britain Parliament House of Lords (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the criminal prisons of this country : occasioned by the bill now in the House of Commons, for consolidating and amending the laws relating to prisons. (Rivington, 1821), by George Holford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the late general election, as demonstrative of the progress of Jacobinism (F. and C. Rivington, 1802), by John Bowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rossa's recollections, 1838 to 1898. (Mariner's Harbor, N.Y. :, 1898), by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des pontons et prisons d'Angleterre pendant la guerre du consulat et de l'empire. (Imprimeurs unis, 1845), by A. Lardier (page images at HathiTrust)
• American citizens prisoners in Great Britain ([New York?, 1870), by John Savage and Fenian Brotherhood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Humanity and humanitarianism : with special reference to the prison systems of Great Britain and the United States, the question of criminal lunacy, and capital punishment (F.B. Kitto, 1871), by William Tallack (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second report of the Surveyor-General of Prisons. (Printed by W. Clowes for H.M.S.O., 1847), by Great Britain. Surveyor-General of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report on the Discipline and Management of the Convict Prisons. 1850. (London, 1851), by Great Britain. Surveyor-General of Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Female life in prison. (Hurst and Blackett, 1862), by F. W. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wards of the state : an unofficial view of prison and the prisoner (Herbert and Daniel, 1913), by Tighe Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chronicles of Newgate. (Chapman and Hall, 1896), by Arthur Griffiths (page images at HathiTrust)
• English prisons to-day; being the report of the Prison System Enquiry Committee. (Longmans, Green, 1922), by Prison System Enquiry Committee, Fenner Brockway, and Stephen Henry Hobhouse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Irish rebels in English prisons : a record of prison life (P.J. Kenedy, 1899), by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old Bailey experience : criminal jurisprudence and the actual working of our penal code of laws : also, an essay on prison discipline, to which is added a history of the crimes committed by offenders in the present day (J. Fraser, 1830), by Thomas Wonter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison discipline (J. Ridgway, and Budd and Clakin, 1821), by C. C. Western (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of penal methods: criminals, witches, lunatics (New York, 1914), by George Ives (page images at HathiTrust)
• Female life in prison (Hurst and Blackett, 1862), by F. W. Robinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The police encyclopaedia (Blackfriars Pub. Co., 1910), by Hargrave Lee Adam (page images at HathiTrust)
• In jail (Socialist Review, in the 1910s), by R. C. Wallhead (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Howard letters and memories. (Methuen & Co., 1905), by William Tallack (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of penal methods; criminals, witches, lunatics (S. Paul & Co., 1914), by George Ives (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the international prison congress held in London, July 3-13, 1872, to the governor of New Hampshire with an account of visits to the penal and reformatory institutions of England, and a brief sketch of the English prison system (O.C. Moore, 1873), by Allen Folger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il sistema penitenziario d'Inghilterra e d'Irlanda - Relazione. (Roma, 1874), by Martino Beltrani-Scalia (page images at HathiTrust)
• Five years' penal servitude (R. Bentley, 1878), by William Hamilton Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forging his own chains. The wonderful life story of George Bidwell... (The Bidwell Publishing Co., 1891), by George Bidwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• On prison discipline and juvenile reformatories. (W. Jones, 1876), by Mary Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chronicles of Newgate (Chapman and Hall, 1884), by Arthur Griffiths (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forging his chains : the autobiography of George Bidwell, his trial and incarceration in English prisons fourteen years on a life sentence for "The $5,000,000 Forgery on the Bank of England." (Bidwell Pub. Co., 1889), by George Bidwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders. With an appendix. (T. Bensley., 1820), by England) Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London and Thomas Bensley (page images at HathiTrust)
• What is to be done with our criminals? : A letter to the right honorable the lord mayor, (Arthur Hall and Virtue, 25, Paternoster Row. And sold by all booksellers., 1857), by Charles Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter on the nature and effect of the tread-wheel, as an instrument of prison labour and punishment, addressed to the Right Hon. Robert Peel with an appendix of notes and cases. By on of his constituents, and a magistrate of the county of Surrey. (Printed for J. Hatchard and son, 1824), by John Ivatt Briscoe and Robert Peel (page images at HathiTrust)
• State of the prisons in England, Scotland and Wales ... : together with some useful documents, observations, and remarks, adapted to explain and improve the condition of prisoners in general. ([publisher not identified], 1812), by James Neild (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry, whether crime and misery are produced or prevented, by our present system of prison discipline : illustrated by descriptions of the Borough Compter, Tothill Fields, the jails at St. Albans and at Guildford, the jail at Bury, the Maison de force at Ghent, the Philadelphia prison, the penitentiary at Millbank, and the proceedings of the Ladies' Committee at Newgate (J. and A. Arch, 1818), by Thomas Fowell Buxton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Prison act, 1865, with rules for the government of the county prison at Gloucester, and diet tables. (Printed by J. Bellows, 1867), by Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the commissioners appointed to inquire into the state, conduct, and management of the prison and gaol of the Fleet : and also, of the prison and gaol of the court of His Majesty's palace at Westminster; and of the court of the Marshalsea of His Majesty's honourable household; and of the prisoners in the said respective prisons confined. (Dated 29th October 1818) Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 16 March 1819. ([publisher not identified], 1819), by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Fleet and Marshalsea Prisons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Commissioners of Prisons (Printed for H.M. Stationery Off., by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1882), by Great Britain. Prison Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jail journal, commenced on board the "Shearwater" steamer, in Dublin Bay, continued at Spike Island--on board the "Scourge" war steamer--on board the "Dromedary" hulk, Bermuda--on board the "Neptune" convict ship--at Pernambuco--at the Cape of Good Hope (during the anti-convict rebellion)--at Van Diemen's land--at Sydney--at Tahiti--at San Francisco--at Greytown--and concluding at no. 3 pier, North River, New York. With an introductory narrative of transactions in Ireland. (M.H. Gill & Son, Ltd.; [etc., etc.], 1918), by John Mitchel and Arthur Griffith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Convict life : or, Revelations concerning convicts and convict prisons (Wyman & Sons, 1879), by pseud A ticket-of-leave man (page images at HathiTrust)
• Five years' penal servitude (Richard Bentley & Son ..., 1878), by William Hamilton Thomson (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Account of all the goals, houses of correction, and penetentiaries in the United Kingdom ... ([n.p.], 1819), by George Ainslie, James Bevans, and Great Britain Home Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English prison system. (Macmillan, 1921), by Evelyn Ruggles-Brise (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An English prison from within (G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 1919), by Stephen Henry Hobhouse (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The state of the prisons. (Dent;, 1929), by John Howard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Our prison system. (Drane's, 1914), by Alec Cook (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The treatment of offenders in Britain. (British Information Services, 1960), by Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division and British Information Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mark of the broad arrow, or, the life of a convict (R.A. Everett & Co., 1903) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The prison life of Michael Davitt (J. J. Lalor, 1882), by Michael Davitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quatre ans de prison (J. Bonhoure, [1880], 1880), by Valérie Boissier de Gasparin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jail journal; or, Five years in British prisons. (Glasgow : R. & T. Washbourne, [1876], 1876), by John Mitchel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forging his chains : the autobiography of George Bidwell. His trial and incarceration in English prisons fourteen years on a life sentence for "The (Bidwell Pub. Co., 1889), by George Bidwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Five years' penal servitude. (G. Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1800), by William Hamilton Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of a terrible crime. (Publication printing co., 1895), by G. F. Burslem (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prison reminiscences. (E.Stock, 1917), by "A half-timer." (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jail journal, commenced on board the "Shearwater" steamer, in Dublin bay, continued at Spike island--on board the "Scourge" war steamer--on board the "Dromedary" hulk, Bermuda--on aboard the "Neptune" convict ship--at Pernambuco--at the cape of Good Hope (during the anti-convict rebellion)--at Van Diemen's land--at Sydney--at Tahiti--at San Francisco--at Greytown--and concluding at no. 3 pier, North river, New York. With an introductory narrative of transactions in Ireland. (M.H. Gill & Son, Ltd.; [etc.,etc.], 1921), by John Mitchel and Arthur Griffith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English Prison System, by Evelyn Ruggles-Brise (Gutenberg ebook)
• Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815: A record of their lives, their romance and their sufferings, by Francis Abell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Eighteen Months' Imprisonment, by Donald Shaw, illust. by Wallis Mackay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Six Years in the Prisons of England, ed. by Frank Henderson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The grovnds and cavses of our sufferings related in short:: who suffer by the cruelty of oppressors, in Edmonds-bury Goal in Suffolk. (London : Printed for Thomas Simonds, at the sign of the Bull and Mouth without Aldersgate, 1656), by George Whitehead, John Harwood, George Fox, George Rofe, and Henry Marshall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An argument shewing that 'tis impossible for the nation to be rid of the grievances occasion'd by the marshal of the King's-Bench, and warden of the Fleet, without an utter extirpation of their present offices with proposals for a new constitution of those offices by way of letter to a member of Parliament. (London : Printed for Richard Standfast ..., 1699), by J. B. (John Berisford) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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