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Jail Journeys: The English Prison Experience Since 1918

Jail Journeys: The English Prison Experience Since 1918

Priestley, Philip

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Prison and Prisoners

Criminology

ISBN10: 1032563176
ISBN13: 9781032563176
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 25 2023
Pages: 198
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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 sex, the humour. There are also eye-witness accounts of the Dartmoor Mutiny, of hangings and floggings, of escapes, and personal statements by the well-known - James Phelan, Wilfred Macartney, Albert Pierrepoint, Charles Kray, John McVicar, Jimmy Boyle, Alfie Hinds, Lord Alfred Douglas - and by many others less well known. These testimonies, by turn dramatic, literate and naïve, add up to an implicit sociology of the twentieth-century English prison, depicting a divided social structure with 'screws' on one side and 'cons' on the other.

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