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  • Above, four martyrs are chained to a post and burnt at the stake in Canterbury; below, a procession of twenty-two prisoners tied together and brought from Colchester to London, presumably for trial. Etching with engraving by G. Terry.
  • Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners in chains are working with hammers breaking stones on the side of the roadway, a guard in a jacket and trousers with a cane is watching over them from under a tree. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamey.
  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: a woman prisoner in solitary confinement. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.
  • The criminal prisons of London, and scenes of prison life / by Henry Mayhew ... and John Binny.
  • Torture in a Sicilian prison in Monreale: the prisoner has a tourniquet applied to his forehead. Wood engraving.
  • Bridewell Prison, Edinburgh, Scotland. Line engraving.
  • Jack Sheppard in prison. Etching, ca. 1724.
  • The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an account of some foreign prisons / [John Howard].
  • A Ukrainian prisoner of war performing a dance at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 191-.
  • A Ukrainian prisoner of war performing a dance at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 191-.
  • A French prisoner of war posing in drag at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 191-.
  • A French prisoner of war posing in drag at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard by P. Tharan, 191-.
  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison: a prisoner standing in a dock before the governor, in the presence of guards. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
  • A British prisoner of war in drag, performing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • A British prisoner of war in drag, performing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Wormwood Scrubs Prison, London: a prisoner in the chain-room where manacles are stored: he is cleaning them. Process print after Paul Renouard.
  • Michael Servetus in prison, statue by C. Roch
  • Prison formerly connected with the St. Marylebone Infirmary.
  • The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an account of some foreign prisons and hospitals / [John Howard].
  • The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an account of some foreign prisons and hospitals / [John Howard].
  • The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an account of some foreign prisons and hospitals / [John Howard].
  • The state of the prisons in England and Wales, with preliminary observations, and an account of some foreign prisons and hospitals / [John Howard].
  • A prisoner is shown a cage which is suspended from the ceiling and already contains another prisoner. Etching by W. Longman after G. Milder.
  • William Cox, burglar, in Newgate prison. Etching, ca. 1773.
  • Thomas Bambridge, warden of the Fleet prison, before a committee of the House of Commons visiting the prisons. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Wormwood Scrubs prison, London: four cooks in prison uniform standing in a line in front of buckets and baskets. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.
  • Thomas Bambridge, warden of the Fleet prison, before a committee of the House of Commons visiting the prisons. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • A prison chaplain (Henry Labouchère) is visiting the journalist Edmund Yates in prison. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 3 May 1884.