Prisons Collection

A prison guard on patrol in B wing of Britains top security prison Parkhurst on the Isle of Wight November 1984

Dora Thewlis and 75 other suffragettes were arrested when the WSPU attempt to storm the Houses of Parliament following the second reading of the Dickinson Bill being talked out out by its opponents

HMP Barlinnie Prison 1987. Left to right Allan McLeish receives ten years (he was serving six months), Prison Officer, Peter Cochome & Billy Marshall

Fifty Metropolitan Police who arrived on the Isle Of Man to act as wardens at the fascist prison camp at Peel, in place of the soldiers who were previously fulfilling the role

A service in the prison chapel at Wormwood Scrubs. 14th April 1923

Convict film which was censored. A pictured drama by the Anchor Film Company, dealing with the escape of a convict from Portland, portions of which have been banned by the censor

Alcatraz Island and prison in San Francisco Bay. September 1979 The prison was originally built by the US Army in 1910 and handed over to the United States Department of Justice on October 12

Interior of a cell block in Alcatraz prison, San Francisco Bay. September 1979 The prison was originally built by the US Army in 1910

Racing legend Desert Orchid visits inmates at Ashwell Prison, Leicestershire. 9th April 1993

World War Two - Second World War - The gates of the Haltwhistle prisoner of war camp with Featherstone Castle pictured in the background.. 16th July, 1996

World War Two - Second World War - Mark Benjamin, assistant librarian in Hexham, at the gates of the Haltwhistle prisoner of war camp with Featherstone Castle pictured in the background

Fire started by prisoners during riot at Dartmoor Prison, January 1932

Fire damage after riot at Dartmoor Prison, January 1932

HMP Barlinnie Prison hostage Dave Flanagan, who is angry over having only been offered £ 3500 in compensation, July 1988

Ronald Smith former Prison Officer at HMP Barlinnie Prison, October 1988. Mr Smith was sacked from his job for poor attendance, and has claimed, at a industrial tribunal

Main gate of Dartmoor Prison January 1932

Dartmoor Prison January 1932

Hole in the wall at Worwood Scrubs prison where master spy George Blake escaped from. 4th November 1966

Creche at Holloway Prison December 1951

Creche at Holloway Prison December 1951 Local Caption
Creche at Holloway Prison December 1951

United States of America Alcatraz Prison Alcatraz Island firmly entrenched in the middle of San Francisco Bay. The former prison, which was once a terribly forbidding and bleak house of corrections

Bandleader Acker Bilk, Jazz money spinner prepared to go to prison for a 3rd time, playing clarenet through bars May 1962

Racing legend Desert Orchid visits inmates at Ashwell Prison, Leicestershire. 9th April 1990

Horfield Jail, Bristol in 1960, shows the inmates of Horfield jail sewing mailbags using old fashioned treadle machines. Circa 1960

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