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  • Wakefield Prison in Yorkshire: a man, prisoner number 2517, his eyes are closed and a warder stands behind him; head and shoulders. Photograph, c. 1869.
  • Plague in Cape Town: convicts cleansing and disinfecting infected buildings. Drawing by H. Johnson, 1891.
  • A ragged man sitting huddled in a cube prison cell bearing the words 'SIDA' with a rat on the opposite side as a man beneath attempts to drill an escape hole in the floor; an advertisement for AIDS week in prisons from 11th to 13th December 1989 by the Comisiones Ciudadanas Anti-SIDA de Alava, Bizkaia, Guipúzcoa y Navarra and the Federación de Comités y Comisiones Ciudadanas Anti-SIDA del Estado Español. Colour lithograph by Hdez. Landazabal, 1989.
  • Beatrice Cenci and her stepmother, in bed in prison in Rome, hear their mandate of execution being read by a Papal envoy accompanied by members of a confraternity of Saint John the Baptist. Etching, ca. 1850.
  • Prisons, HIV and AIDS : risks and experiences in custodial care / AVERT.
  • Turkish prisoners from Cyprus being transported to Turkey, on board a ship with a guard watching them from the rail. Wood engraving, 1878.
  • Saint Peter in prison visited by Saint Paul. Colour lithograph by C. Mariannecci, 1862, after Filippino Lippi.
  • Sita in captivity in Lanka being tempted by Ravana. Chromolithograph.
  • A soldier, leaning against the window ledge of a prison window with a large empty flask on the ground, is conversing with a prisoner who is looking through the bars while holding a tankard in his hand. Lithograph after R. Seymour.
  • Saint Leonard. Engraving by J. Nowohradsky.
  • A man in prison praying to the devil to have him released. Etching by D. Stoop.
  • Newgate Prison, London: visitors talking to prisoners through a grill. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1873, after M. Fitzgerald.
  • Prisoners in Rangoon working a treadmill. Process print after Watts & Skeen.
  • Saint Peter in prison visited by Saint Paul. Etching by T. Patch, 1770, after Filippino Lippi.
  • Three men in Madagascar have chains around them that join their necks and ankles. Process print.
  • Future meetings (please note change of room) : HIV positive through NHS treatment: what future? ... Alternative & complementary treatments for HIV/AIDS ... HIV/AIDS and prisons : the management of HIV in prisons / The All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS.
  • Prisoners in Cape Town with spades and a wheelbarrow are digging a hole in the road: a guard with a rifle stands by. Wood engraving, 1878.
  • William Cox, burglar, in Newgate prison. Etching, ca. 1773.
  • Pero breastfeeding her father Cimon to assuage his hunger. Etching by Francesco Cozza.
  • A prisoner lies dying in his bed, his life ruined by early frivolity. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848, after himself.
  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a convict sitting in a bare room on a stool with some work in his hands. Process print after Paul Renouard.
  • Saint Peter: an angel releases him from prison. Colour lithograph by C. Mariannecci, 1862, after Filippino Lippi.
  • Seven prisoners in Persia sitting on the ground bound together by chains, supervised by three armed guards standing behind. Process print.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners in uniform are marching towards the penitentiary after hard labour outside, supervised by armed guards. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamey.
  • A Chinese woman carrying a baby on her back is feeding her husband who is imprisoned in a circular pillory. Wood engraving, ca. 1850.
  • Franco-Prussian War: wounded French prisoners from the Battle of Worth. Wood engraving, 1870.
  • Plague in Cape Town: convicts cleansing and disinfecting infected buildings. Drawing by H. Johnson, 1891.
  • Boer War: British wounded prisoners and the Boer wounded arriving at Pretoria station. Process print after F.C. Dickinson after a photograph.
  • Wakefield Prison, Yorkshire: an elderly man, struggling against the restraint-chair in which he is held by his wrists and neck. Photograph, ca. 1869.
  • Prisoners receiving food. Gouache painting.