Portal:Prison

Political and Legislative Works

 * Prisoners and Bail Act, 1275
 * Prison Act 1952 (15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2 c. 52)
 * Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, United States

Works by and about Prisoners

 * My Ten Years' Imprisonment, 1832 by Silvio Pellico, translated by Thomas Roscoe
 * Adventures of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw of Mitrowitz, 1862 by Václav Vratislav z Mitrovic, transl. by Albert Henry Wratislaw
 * Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, 1912 by Alexander Berkman
 * The Jail, 1918 by J. S. Machar, 1921 translated by Paul Selver
 * Address on his release from prison, 1990 by Nelson Mandela
 * Address on his release from prison, 1990 by Nelson Mandela

Prison breaks, escapes and rescues

 * Statement of the attempted rescue of General Lafayette from Olmutz by Elizabeth Pinckney Huger (1881}}

Poetry

 * To Althea, from Prison, 1649 by Richard Lovelace
 * Written on the Day that Mr Leigh Hunt left Prison, 1815 by John Keats
 * The Jail of Clonmel
 * How soft this Prison is, by Emily Dickinson
 * A Prison gets to be a friend —, by Emily Dickinson
 * Prison Reform and Poise, by Don Marquis
 * A Voice From the Dungeon, by Anne Brontë
 * A Prisoner in a Dungeon Deep, by Anne Brontë

Essays and Analytical Works

 * The Death Penalty, by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, pre-1907
 * Facts about Flogging, by Joseph Collinson, pre-1907
 * The Ethics of Corporal Punishment by Henry S. Salt, pre-1907
 * The Treatment of Prisoners, by W. Douglas Morrison, pre-1907
 * Corporal Punishment in India, pre-1907 by Henry Cotton
 * A Plea for Mercy to Offenders, pre-1907 by C. H. Hopwood
 * Imprisonment for Debt, 1907 Open Letter by The London Times

Fiction

 * The Count of Monte Cristo, 1844 by Alexandre Dumas
 * For the Term of His Natural Life, 1874 by Marcus Clarke