Banged up : doing time in Britain's toughest jails
Leslie, David2014
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'Banged Up!' is the story of six of the country's most notorious jails - Durham, Wandsworth, Pentonville, Wormwood Scrubs, Dartmoor and Holloway - and of the men and women who entered their gates, sometimes stood on their scaffolds and occasionally vanished before their time. The book looks at early punishments, life on hell ships transporting convicts to far-off continents, the growth of prison populations, inmates sentenced to waste away on treadmills, the underworld giant who was birched, children starved and beaten for stealing, and even women forced to eat. Also investigated are the lives and thoughts of scores of inmates, from Oscar Wilde to Oswald Mosley; from Dr Crippen to Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged; from underworld legend Frankie Fraser to a Rolling Stone; and even the man who shot Martin Luther King, Jr.
Main title:
Banged up : doing time in Britain's toughest jails / David Leslie.
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Imprint:
Edinburgh : Black & White Publishing, 2014.Edinburgh : Black & White Publishing, 2014.
Collation:
xi, 308 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781845028480 (pbk)
Dewey class:
365.9'42365.942365
LC class:
HV9649
Local class:
365.942
Language:
English
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BRN:
1103079
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