... production partners Roar films Thomas Steve Tim art director shooting editing visas Wayne editor music Gross Guy Lang Ian Rosenthal Tirtza luck Ikey Solomon Newgate prison Old Bailey Arthur’s Penal Colony Convict transportation Van Diemen’s Land Richmond prison In 2012 I made a feature...

...This chapter discusses the fifteen convicts from Newgate Prison who made a “daring escape” across the Hudson River to New Jersey. New York State legislators responded by establishing an armed guard on call in the surrounding neighborhood. The prison's agent, a Quaker and advocate of nonviolence...

...This chapter focuses on an anonymous dialogue published in Sword of Justice, Wielded by Mercy. It was between Newgate prison inspectors and an inmate about to be released. Reflecting on the sentence he served and punishments he endured, the prisoner quotes from the book of Proverbs...

...This chapter examines the transmission of news in, through and about Newgate prison in the aftermath of the 1715 Jacobite rebellion. Although Newgate was not located in the provinces, the prison’s special structure of governance, its famously exotic customs, the difficulty of access...