Portal:Prison

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet take
That for an hermitage
—To Althea, from Prison, 1649 by Richard Lovelace

Political and Legislative Works

• Prisoners and Bail Act, 1275
• Prison Act 1952 (15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2 c. 52)
• Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003, United States

Works by and about Prisoners

• My Ten Years' Imprisonment, 1832 by Silvio Pellico, translated by Thomas Roscoe
• Adventures of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw of Mitrowitz, 1862 by Václav Vratislav z Mitrovic, transl. by Albert Henry Wratislaw
• Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, 1912 by Alexander Berkman
• The Jail, 1918 by J. S. Machar, 1921 translated by Paul Selver
• "Deputy Klofac's Prison Memoirs" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (2) (1918)
• Address on his release from prison, 1990 by Nelson Mandela

Prison breaks, escapes and rescues

• Statement of the attempted rescue of General Lafayette from Olmutz by Elizabeth Pinckney Huger (1881}}
• “The Plan to Rescue the Johnson's Island Prisoners,” by Robert Dabney Minor in the Southern Historical Society Papers Volume 23, 1895

Poetry

• To Althea, from Prison, 1649 by Richard Lovelace
• Written on the Day that Mr Leigh Hunt left Prison, 1815 by John Keats
• The Jail of Clonmel
• How soft this Prison is, by Emily Dickinson
• A Prison gets to be a friend —, by Emily Dickinson
• Prison Reform and Poise, by Don Marquis
• A Voice From the Dungeon, by Anne Brontë
• A Prisoner in a Dungeon Deep, by Anne Brontë

Essays and Analytical Works

• The Death Penalty, by Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner, pre-1907
• Facts about Flogging, by Joseph Collinson, pre-1907
• The Ethics of Corporal Punishment by Henry S. Salt, pre-1907
• The Treatment of Prisoners, by W. Douglas Morrison, pre-1907
• Corporal Punishment in India, pre-1907 by Henry Cotton
• A Plea for Mercy to Offenders, pre-1907 by C. H. Hopwood
• Imprisonment for Debt, 1907 Open Letter by The London Times

Reference Works

• "Prisons," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
• "Mamertine Prison," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)

Fiction

• The Count of Monte Cristo, 1844 by Alexandre Dumas
• For the Term of His Natural Life, 1874 by Marcus Clarke