Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..

Newgate Prison, London: male prisoners taking exercise by walking around the prison yard. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1873.

Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners are sitting in a room sewing large pieces of cloth. Wood engraving by H.H. after M. Fitzgerald.

Middlesex House of Correction: prisoners sitting on long benches untangling bundles of twine (picking oakum); a guard raises his hand. Wood engraving. after M. Fitzgerald, 1874.

Middlesex House of Correction: male prisoners treading on the boards of a treadmill: in the foreground others sit resting. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1874, after M. Fitzgerald.

Newgate Prison, London: visitors talking to prisoners through a grill. Wood engraving by W.B. Gardner, 1873, after M. Fitzgerald.

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