The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day

by Griffiths, Arthur, 1838-1908

Published 1900 

In 12 Volumes

             I. II. Chronicles of Newgate from the eighteenth century to its demolition; a sketch of the Tower.

          III. Milbank penitentiary; an experiment in reformation.

         IV. Non-criminal prisons: English debtor's prisons and prisons of war; French war prisons; American war prisons; with references to those of other lands.

             V. Prisons over seas: deportation and colonization; British and American prisons of to-day.

         VI. Early French prisons: Le Grand and Le Petit Chatelets; Vincennes-the Bastile-Loches; the galleys; revolutionary prisons

      VII. Modern French prisons Bicetre-St. Pelagie-St. Lazare La force-the Conciergerie La Grande & La Petite Roquettes Mazas-La Sante

VIII. German and Austrian prisons: prisons of Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Austria-Hungary; the foretresses of Magdeburg and Spielberg.

VIII.  IX. Spanish prisons: the inquisition at home and abroad; prisons past and present.

IX.          X. Italian prisons: St. Angelo-the Piombi-the Vicaria; prisons of the Roman inquisition

             XI. Russian prisons: St. Peter and St. Paul; the Schlusselberg; the Ostrog at Omsk; the story of Siberian exile; Tiumen, Tomsk, Saghalien.

XI.          XII. Oriental prisons: prisons and crime in India; the Andaman islands; Burmah-China-Japan-Egypt; Turkey

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