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
Revisiting the legacy of the 1959 prison building programme
By Thomas Guiney