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Think of witches, and you often conjure up a mental picture of Shakespeare’s three old crones crouched around a bubbling cauldron, chanting incantations. But now…

At one time, there were not only prisons for containing wrongdoers in custody, there were also places called ‘lockups’. The difference between a prison and…

When the British government had to rethink where to offload their criminal fraternity they briefly experimented with sending their prisoners to what are now known…

Think of convicts going abroad and most people will immediately think of Australia. In 1778 Britain did indeed start punishing its convicts by sending them…

Although people everywhere have been through a very difficult time over the last couple of years, it’s not the first time that we have had…