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Additional Primary Sources

• Report on Construction, Ventilation and Details of Pentonville Prison (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXVIII.127); John Thomas Burt, Results of the System of Separate Confinement as Administered at Pentonville Prison (London, 1852); Joseph Kingsmill, Chapters on Prisons and Prisoners, and the Prevention of Crime, 3rd edn (London, 1854); Henry Mayhew and John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life (London, 1862), pp. 112-172