The following works were consulted during the writing of the Prisons pages:
Anon., Prisons and The Prisoner, An Introduction to the work of Her Majesty's Prison Service, The Stationery Office, London, 2001
Clive Emsley, Crime and Society in England 1750-1900, Longman Press, 1996
Steve Fielding, The Hangman's Record, Vol. I, 1868-99, Chancery House Press, 1994
Steve Fielding, The Hangman's Record, Vol. II, 1900-1920, Chancery House Press, 1995
Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, The Birth of the Prison, Penguin Books, 1977
Steve Jones, Capital Punishments, Crime and Prison Conditions in Victorian Times, Darwin Press, 1996
Norval Morris and David J. Rothman, The Oxford History of the Prison, Oxford University Press, 1995
Philip Priestley, Victorian Prison Lives, English Prison Biography 1830-1914, Methuen, 1985
R. Shoesmith and R. Crosskey, "Go to Gaol ... in Hereford", in Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club, Vol. XLVIII, 1994
Val Watts, Colin Manning and Tony Wilce, The Changing Face of Herefordshire Magistrates Courts, Orphans Printing Press, 2001
[Original compiler: Miranda Greene, 2003]