Britain's old-fashioned Victorian "hell ... Brixton in south London, Winson Green in Birmingham, Armley in Leeds and Portland in Dorset. The "super prisons" plan was said to be one of the ...

The prisons watchdog described the scandal-hit Victorian jail as “symbolic of ... the turmoil they found at the category B south-west London prison was the result of “sustained decline ...

In my new book, Modeling the Metropolis, I show how architectural models became a crucial communication tool in Victorian London. They enabled politicians and the wider public to visualize ...