Portal:Prison
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An index of works related to prison.
Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage
—To Althea, from Prison, 1649 by Richard Lovelace
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage
—To Althea, from Prison, 1649 by Richard Lovelace
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
- "Deputy Klofac's Prison Memoirs" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (2) (1918)
- 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}}
- “The Plan to Rescue the Johnson's Island Prisoners,” by Robert Dabney Minor in the Southern Historical Society Papers Volume 23, 1895
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
Reference Works
- "Prisons," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
- "Mamertine Prison," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)