Historys Hardest Prisons Debt and Damnation

The daily life of the prison communities backbreaking labour brutality and abuse relentless routines gang warfare and the constant struggle for survival It will cast a new light on our contemporary system of imprisonment whilst revealing our changing attitudes to crime over the ages In a time of credit crunch and economic crisis Piers eyeopening exploration of debt will show how 300 years ago punishments did not necessarily fit the crime