Despite being illiterate and uneducated, Annie Gordon Baillie forged herself a career as one of the Victorian era's most ...

From Scrooge to Great Expectations, these notable adaptations based on Charles Dickens' books are movies that are peak ...

Nearly 400 beds will be added to children's and adult prisons across the state as part of the boost, which will also fund 720 new jobs, according to the Herald Sun. Victorian Opposition Leader ...

Victorian prison guards are being attacked, sexually assaulted, and even hospitalised by the state’s most dangerous criminals in alarming numbers, damning new data reveals. Leaked data obtained ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

Martin Daunton examines Dickens' brilliant evocation of Victorian social conditions ... management had led him and his family to a debtors' prison - where the young Charles witnessed misery ...

I even looked up if debtors' prisons were still a thing. (Spoiler: They're not!) However, that doesn't mean you're off the hook if you don't pay your credit card debt. While debt collectors can't ...

The Victorian era’s growing push for prison reform brought King’s Bench’s bizarre set-up under heightened scrutiny. In 1880, the institution was finally closed, and the remaining inmates were ...

And the castle isn't just any old fortress; it houses an original 1215 Magna Carta and a Victorian prison that detained debtors up until 1878. The prison was designed with a "separate system ...