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Raising a baby in prison

Gary’s second child spent much of her babyhood in a prison mother-and-baby unit, after his wife was given a custodial sentence. Here he explores the family’s experiences of that time.

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Disturbed minds and disruptive bodies

Prison officers tried to regulate women’s minds and bodies and maintain a new disciplinary routine in the second half of the 1800s.

  • In pictures

The hermit life from medieval to modern

Can hermits get lonely? Explore solitary lives through the ages, from early religious ascetics to children imprisoned in churches, and on to those compelled to withdraw from modern life in the 21st century.

  • Long read

Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction

Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.

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  • Prisoners receiving food. Gouache painting.
  • Prisoners marching in the countryside under supervision. Gouache painting.
  • Prisoners in Rangoon working a treadmill. Process print after Watts & Skeen.
  • 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-.
  • Prisoners in the French Revolution awaiting the summons to the guillotine. Engraving by Masson after Charles Muller.
  • Prisoners at Tétouan restrained by chains seated in the presence of four guards armed with rifles. Wood engraving.
  • Prisoners are driven on a cart to the guillotine. Etching by J. Somerville after D.A.M. Raffet.
  • Prisoners behind bars opening on to a yard in Moscow being visited by men and women at Easter. Wood engraving, 1890.
  • Nine male prisoners In Yemen wearing leg irons. Process print.
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