Children of Darkness

A splendidly raffish gallery of rogues inhabit Newgate Prison in the London of 1725. Besides the conniving jailkeeper there are his daughter who favors the prisoners according to their money a titled scoundrel a poet a whining condemned man and a family prisoner dressed in exquisite lace. There is savage humor in their strategems and the whole makes a shocking picture of historical justice.

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