1880, a Police man in the traditional uniform of the Victorian period. Prison discipline,1884. A Dartmoor prisoner turning the crank as solitary punishment. Work in prison included, pulling apart ...

In order to reform idle convicts and combat crime that plagued the Victorian era ... use of treadwheels was abolished in Britain by the Prisons Act of 1898. So the next time you finish a grueling ...

Prisoners were filmed occupying ... Justice said a "full assessment" of the 560-capacity Victorian jail would be carried out. Crime and Punishment is on Channel Four on Monday at 21:00 BST.

A convicted murderer who stabbed a mother-of-three to death over $50 has been granted release from a Victorian prison to ...

Plans to close Victorian-era jails in England and Wales and sell them for housing have been scrapped. The government proposed shutting the "most dilapidated prisons" with hopes of building more ...

Visitors to Victorian prisons were caught trying to smuggle in thousands of cigarettes this year while the prisoners themselves got creative to get around the smoking ban. Corrections Victoria ...

The prisons watchdog described the scandal-hit Victorian jail as ‘symbolic of the problems that characterise what is worst about the English prison system’ (Lucy North/PA) Daniel Khalife’s ...

The Torch Indigenous Arts in Prisons and Community Program uses arts practice and culture in the rehabilitative process for Indigenous offenders. The Victorian Government announced an ...