The English Prisons: Their Past and Their Future

In the late 1950s crime and its treatment had never been of greater public interest. In The English Prisons, originally published in 1960, D.L. Howard used his knowledge of academic criminology and his practical experience of criminals of all ages to produce a book which would be of value to all who were concerned with crime in this country at the time.

The author gives the first full survey of the history of prisons to appear for many years. He describes conditions in the early prisons and ...