Associate Professor Catherine Cox explores the introduction of separate confinement to
Mountjoy Convict Prison, Dublin
Tag: 19th century
Beyond Reading Gaol: Prison Writings and Mental Illness
Drawing on research from our ‘Prisoners and Mental Illness’ theme, Hilary Marland reveals how nineteenth-century prison memoirs illuminate experiences of mental breakdown in prison
Mentally Disordered Prisoners: Drawing on History
Hilary Marland and Catherine Cox reflect on the history of prisoner mental health
Prisoners and Mental Illness in Prisons, 1850–2000
Catherine Cox and Hilary Marland
Mental breakdown was often attributed to the intrinsic mental weakness of the prison population …
Mental Illness and Juvenile Prisoners, 1850–2000
Fiachra Byrne
Focusing on the ‘disturbed’ child who exhibited a pathological pattern of behaviour in detention settings …
Management of Health and Disease, 1850–1950
Margaret Charleroy
The physician was responsible for determining the maximum physical stress each inmate could safely endure …
Political Prisoners, Medicine and Health, 1850–2000
William Murphy
The intersection of health and medical care with ‘modern’ political imprisonment in England and Ireland …
Exploring the history of prisoner health 