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Letters for the Ages Behind Bars: Letters from History's Most Famous Prisoners

By Jonathan Aitken (Foreword by), James Drake (Editor), Edward Smyth (Editor)
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By Jonathan Aitken (Foreword by), James Drake (Editor), Edward Smyth (Editor)
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Letters for the Ages Behind Bars is a history of imprisonment told through the letters of people incarcerated over many centuries, for crimes committed or sometimes even for no reason at all. It is a story that runs from St Paul right up to the present day.

The act of depriving someone of their liberty is one of humankind's most enduring responses to 'crime' through history. What society has sought to achieve over the years by doing so has shifted across the centuries and there is now a vari...

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