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Among The Broad-Arrow Men of Leicester Gaol - A Plain Account of English Prison Life (1924)

B-2-15

First published anonymously in 1924 by R. A. Castle, under his prison identity of Convict B-2-15. B stood for the tier he was on, 2 denoted the kind of work he was assigned and 15 was the cell. The author spent several years in Leicester Gaol from 1920 onwards, and this is his story of punishments, solitary confinement, prison food, juveniles in prison and more.

From the first chapter of the book:

"IT is my intention to give, as briefly as possible, a straightforward account of prison life … [more about this new title]

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