1st Edition
Jail Journeys The English Prison Experience Since 1918
By Philip Priestley
Copyright 1989
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published in 1989, Jail Journeys was a contemporary history of the English prison system in the words of those who had endured it as prisoners or who had worked within it. More than 1000 extracts from more than 150 first-hand accounts of life ‘inside’ chronicle the empty routines of the prison day and tell of the loneliness, the despair, the squalor, the fights, the friendships, the... Read more
Acknowledgements. Prologue: The English Prison: The Nineteenth Century Legacy. Book One: Into Prison. Book Two: The Men in Grey. Book Three: Women in Prison. Book Four: The Men in Blue. Book Five: The Prison Experience. Epilogue: The Twentieth Century. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Philip Priestley
