The world's famous prisons, an account of the state of prisons from the earliest times to the present day, with the history of celebrated cases.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffiths, Arthur, 1838-1908.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons.

Criminals.

Crime.

Physical Description:

12 volumes : color frontispieces, plates, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Grolier Society, [19 ]

Contents:

[1] Chronicles of Newgate from the twelfth to the eighteenth century.

[2] Chronicles of Newgate from the eighteenth century to its demolition; a sketch of the tower.

[3] Millbank Penitentiary: an experiment in reformation.

[4] Non-criminal prisons; English debtor's prisons and prisons of war; French war prisons; American war prisons; with references to those of other land.

[5] Prisons over seas; deportation and colonization; British and American prisons of today.

[6] Early French prisons; Le Grand and Le Petit Châtelets; Vincennes, the Bastile, Loches; the galleys; revolutionary prisons.

[7] Modern French prisons; Bicêtre, St. Pélagie, St. Lazare, La Force, the Conciergerie, la Grande and La Petite Roquettes; Mazas, La Santé.

[8] German and Austrian prisons; prisons of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Austria-Hungary; the fortresses of Madgeburg and Spielberg.

[9] Spanish prisons; the Inquisition at home and abroad; prisons past and present.

[10] Italian prisons; St. Angelo, the Piombi, the Vicaria; prisons of the Roman Inquisition.

[11] Russian prisons; St. Peter and St. Paul, the Schlüsselburg, the Ostrog at Omsk; the story of Siberian exile; Tiumen, Tomsk, Saghalien.

[12] Oriental prisons; prisons and crime in India, the Andaman Islands, Burmah, China, Japan, Egypt, Turkey.

Notes:

Each volume has also special t.p. giving author's name.

Published also under title: The history and romance of crime from the earliest times to the present day.

OCLC:

3957989