Jail Journeys

The English Prison Experience Since 1918

By:

Philip Priestley

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Routledge Library Editions: Prison and Prisoners

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Originally published in 1989, Jail Journeys was a contemporary history of the English prison system in the words of those who had endured it as prisoners or who had worked within it. More than 1000 extracts from more than 150 first-hand accounts of life ‘inside’ chronicle the empty routines of the prison day and tell of the loneliness, the despair, the squalor, the fights, the friendships, the sex, the humour. There are also eye-witness accounts of the Dartmoor Mutiny, of hangings and floggings, of escapes, and personal statements by the well-known – James Phelan, Wilfred Macartney, Albert Pierrepoint, Charles Kray, John McVicar, Jimmy Boyle, Alfie Hinds, Lord Alfred Douglas – and by many others less well known. These testimonies, by turn dramatic, literate and naïve, add up to an implicit sociology of the twentieth-century English prison, depicting a divided social structure with ‘screws’ on one side and ‘cons’ on the other. The book is aimed at anyone with an interest in social issues and twentieth-century history as well as students of law, history, sociology, criminology, and social administration, and at professionals working in all these fields.

Release date Australia

October 25th, 2023

Author

Philip Priestley

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

198

Series

Routledge Library Editions: Prison and Prisoners

ISBN-13

9781032563176

Product ID

36829377

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