[1] Every cell at Millbank has two doors: one of wood, next the prisoner, the other a heavy iron trellis gate. The former was closed by a running bolt; the gate had a double lock.
[3] The dress of women in the second or superior class consisted of dark green jacket and stuff petticoat; the first or lower class wore a yellow jacket.
[4] A piece of long yarn issued to be worked up in the looms.
[5] I can vouch for the accuracy of this measurement which I verified myself when Millbank was still standing.
[6] The account of this experience I have ventured to extract from my work “Fifty Years of Public Service.” (Cassell & Co.)
[7] “Stiffs” are letters written clandestinely by prisoners to one another on any scrap of paper they can find.
[8] The “hopper” is a contrivance for preventing the inmate of a cell from looking out of the window. It is a board resting on the window ledge at a slant, rising to a height above the window, the sides filled in with other boards.
[9] This model prison was that built at Pentonville, under the active supervision of Colonel Jebb, R. E., and a board of commissioners specially appointed by the Secretary of State. The first stone was laid in April, 1840, and it was occupied by prisoners in December, 1842.
[10] The Eighth Report of the Inspector of Prisons.
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