London's Prisons: Holloway

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Arthur H. Beavan, in Imperial London, first published 1901, continued his brief survey of London's Prisons at the time with a look at Holloway:

Holloway "Castle," Camden Road, officially the City prison, covers about ten acres of ground originally intended for a cemetery.

Its boundary wall is eighteen feet high, which, with its fortified gateways and castellated style, fully justifies its popular designation.

Its architectural plan is that of six radiating wings, on the "panopticon" principle, wherein over four hundred detenus can be accommodated.

It is a place for prisoners awaiting trial, for persons convicted of the terrible offence of "contempt of court," and for debtors, etc; its most notable recent immurements being the Dowager Duchess of Sutherland (for abstracting, or destroying, certain documents relating to her husband's estate), and Dr. Jameson and other South African raiders, first-class misdemeanants, who, as such, could furnish their own rooms, and order their meals from a restaurant outside the prison walls.

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