Chapter II: Introduction: 5

I. THE BUILDING OF THE PENITENTIARY 15

II. EARLY MANAGEMENT 33

III. THE GREAT EPIDEMIC 48

IV. THE PENITENTIARY REOCCUPIED 73

V. SERIOUS DISTURBANCES 107

VI. A NEW REGIME 132

VII. INGENIOUS ESCAPES 166

VIII. THE WOMEN’S WARDS 198

IX. THE MILLBANK CALENDAR 236

X. THE PENITENTIARY IMPUGNED 275

XI. LAST DAYS OF MILLBANK 293

List of Illustrations

TEMPLE BAR, LONDON _Frontispiece_

BOW STREET OFFICE, LONDON _Page_ 40

MILLBANK PENITENTIARY, WESTMINSTER ” 108

PRISONERS AT DARTMOOR MARCHING TO THEIR WORK ” 194

MILLBANK PENITENTIARY