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  • Newgate Prison, London: male prisoners taking exercise by walking around the prison yard. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1873.
  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: a woman prisoner in solitary confinement. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.
  • 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.
  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: five women prisoners convicted of infanticide. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: women prisoners working the fire pump. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
  • Prisoners of war performing a play at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Prisoners of war performing a play at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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-.
  • 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.
  • Four British prisoners of war at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus, posing as lovers. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • Four British prisoners of war at a prisoner of war camp in Cottbus, posing as lovers. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • 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.
  • A prison chaplain (Henry Labouchère) is visiting the journalist Edmund Yates in prison. Colour lithograph by Judd & Co. after Tom Merry, 3 May 1884.
  • Newgate Prison, London: visitors talking to prisoners through a grill. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1873, after M. Fitzgerald.
  • British prisoners of war posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.
  • British prisoners of war, posing for "The Timbertown Follies", at a prisoner of war camp in Groningen. Photographic postcard, 191-.