Prison Service Journal 246

The first of a two-part special edition on understanding the past.

Articles in this edition include Chris Holligan on suffragettes, Helen Elfleet on female reformers from Elizabeth Fry to Jean Corston, and Allan Brodie on prison planning.

Part two of this special edition is in PSJ 249, May 2020.

In this edition

Introducing part one of two Prison Service Journal special editions on crime history

By Dr Alana Barton and Professor Alyson Brown

Dilemmas and solutions in English prison planning, 1780-1850

By Allan Brodie

Female drunkenness and Strangeways Prison, 1869-1875

By Dr Craig Stafford

Suffragette Experience in Scotland’s Perth Prison

By Professor Chris Holligan

Popular Film and Prison Rebellions, 1930-1939

By Dr Alex Tepperman

Revisiting the legacy of the 1959 prison building programme

By Thomas Guiney

From Elizabeth Fry To Baroness Jean Corston

By Dr Helen Elfleet