Pit of Shame : The Real Ballad of Reading Gaol

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Pub. Date: 2007-05-18
Publisher(s): Waterside Pr
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Table of Contents

A Note from Reading's Governing Governor
List of illustrations
Timeline
The Old Reading Gaolsp. 17
The New Prisonp. 30
Punishments of Former Timesp. 44
Executionsp. 52
Prisoner C.3.3 Oscar Wildep. 77
Illustrationsp. 95
The Ballad of Reading Gaolp. 103
Illustrationsp. 119
The Easter Rising and Internmentp. 127
Invisible Prisonersp. 139
A Pioneering Borstal Correctional Centrep. 144
Starting Again with a Clean Sheetp. 148
Life as a Local Prisonp. 153
HM Remand Centre and Young Offender Institutionp. 159
'Reading Gaol' Today and in the Futurep. 165
Appendix
'Arrested Development'p. 174
Rules for Prisoners (c.1850)p. 181
Prison Dietary Scales (c.1850)p. 183
List of Executionsp. 185
Primary Sources, Internet Sites and Select Bibliographyp. 187
Indexp. 189
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