This edition, guest edited by Dr Alana Barton and Professor Alyson Brown profiles often unheard voices and experiences in the prison system, past and present.
In this edition:
- Editorial comment, by Dr Alana Barton and Professor Alyson Brown
- Learning to Fail? Prisoners with Special Educational Needs, by Dr Alana Barton and Anita Hobson
- Disability and the Victorian Prison: Experiencing Penal Servitude, by Dr Helen Johnston and Dr Jo Turner
- Feigning Insanity in Late-Victorian Britain, by Dr Jade Shepherd
- Yesterday’s Heroes, Today’s Villains? Former military personnel in prison, by Julie T Davies
- Hidden diversity in interwar convict incarceration, by Professor Alyson Brown
- The Criminal Justice System and Black People in Victorian Britain, by Jeffrey Green
- An exception too far: ‘gentleman’ convicts and the 1878–9 Penal Servitude Acts Commission, by Ben Bethell
- Public and private perceptions of Victorian respectability – the life and times of a ‘Gentleman Lag’, by Dr David J Cox
