In May 1824, Captain Lynds found his spot in Mount Pleasant. The New York State Legislature wanted a third state prison in addition to Newgate, built in Greenwich Village in 1797, and Auburn, erected ...

Although the prison was partly destroyed to convert ... wrote about was brought to an end when capital punishment moved inside Newgate and out of sight. Dead Man’s Walk is one of the most ...

Elizabeth Fry was accompanied by friends on her first Newgate visit in 1813 and came with provisions for the inmates, but she was horrified by the experience Prison isn’t working for women ...

She and was outraged at the conditions faced by female prisoners in London’s Newgate Prison. Fry saw hundreds of women imprisoned together in wards. Convicted criminals were mixed with those ...