THE STORY OF A PRISON

Hardback. Foreword by Lord Wolfenden. The author has used the famous old gaol at Reading as the basis for an introduction to the history of penal practice from the 16th-century to modern times. Beginning as a rather horrific account of cruelties practised upon the criminal, it develops into an account of the national movements of thought in the treatment of prisoners, and in the administration of prisons. A small, but comprehensive book. Illus., Appendices, Bibliog. and Index. 152pp. small 8vo. h/back. Nr. F. in Vg+ protected dw.