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Prison discipline

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  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a convict sitting in a bare room on a stool with some work in his hands. Process print after Paul Renouard.
  • A prisoner in Sing Sing Prison, New York, having water poured over him by a guard as a punishment, while restrained at the ankles and wrists: he dies. Wood engraving, 1869.
  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a prisoner standing in a dock before the governor, in the presence of guards. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
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  • view Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a convict sitting in a bare room on a stool with some work in his hands. Process print after Paul Renouard.
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    Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a convict sitting in a bare room on a stool with some work in his hands. Process print after Paul Renouard.

    Renouard, Paul, 1845-1924. | Date: [1889] | Reference: 37728i
  • view A prisoner in Sing Sing Prison, New York, having water poured over him by a guard as a punishment, while restrained at the ankles and wrists: he dies. Wood engraving, 1869.
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    A prisoner in Sing Sing Prison, New York, having water poured over him by a guard as a punishment, while restrained at the ankles and wrists: he dies. Wood engraving, 1869.

    | Date: [1869] | Reference: 37753i
  • view Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a prisoner standing in a dock before the governor, in the presence of guards. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
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    Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a prisoner standing in a dock before the governor, in the presence of guards. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.

    Renouard, Paul, 1845-1924. | Date: [1889] | Reference: 37726i
  • view A defence of the system of solitary confinement of prisoners adopted by the state of Pennsylvania : with remarks on the origin, progress and extension of this species of prison discipline / by George W. Smith.
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    A defence of the system of solitary confinement of prisoners adopted by the state of Pennsylvania : with remarks on the origin, progress and extension of this species of prison discipline / by George W. Smith.

    Smith, George W. (George Washington), 1800-1876. | Date: 1833
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    Two male convicts rotate a water engine as two more approach under the instruction of the warder in Coldbath Field's prison, London. Aquatint by J. Bluck after T. Rowlandson and A.C. Pugin.

    Bluck, J., active 1791-1831. | Date: [1808] | Reference: 584998i
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