Life and Death in a Victorian Prison | Human Voiced, No Ads

00:00:00 Intro and Welcome
00:02:16 A New Era of Punishment
00:06:55 Silence and Isolation
00:15:56 Daily Routine and Hard Labour
00:28:56 Bread and Water
00:41:38 Rules, Discipline and Punishments
00:49:10 Women and Children Behind Bars
00:56:24 Capital Punishment and Death
01:04:46 Voices of Reform

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Sources and Further Reading

Anonymous ("One Who Has Endured It"). 1878. Five Years’ Penal Servitude.

Davitt, Michael. 1885. Leaves from a Prison Diary.

Dickens, Charles. 1842. American Notes for General Circulation.

Du Cane, Sir Edmund F. 1885. The Punishment and Prevention of Crime.

Fry, Elizabeth. 1827. Observations on the Visiting, Superintendence, and Government of Female Prisoners.

Gladstone Committee. 1895. Report of the Departmental Committee on Prisons.

Higgs, Michelle. 2013. Prison Life in Victorian England.

Ignatieff, Michael. 1978. A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution 1750–1850.

Mayhew, Henry & Binny, John. 1862. The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life.

Wilde, Oscar. 1898. The Ballad of Reading Gaol.


Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.