Newgate Prison, Connecticut: America’s first state prison, opened in the late 18th century in Newgate (now East Granby) and long a brutal symbol of colonial justice before fading into history at the Old Newgate Mine ruins.#history #prison #connecticut #newengland #travel #mine | Everything NewEngland

Newgate Prison was London’s most iconic prison until the beginning of the 20th century with Holloway Prison also being very well known after becoming female only from 1902, housing hundreds of suffragettes in the early 20th century. Our Executions exhibition holds an exterior door from Newgate Prison and an interior cell door from Holloway Prison. This door from Newgate Prison was also known as the Debtors Door and would have been the last door that the condemned would walk through before being

This painting depicts the last moments of Henry Fauntleroy’s life from the view of a fellow prisoner, William Thompson. Henry Fauntleroy, framed in the doorway, was one of the most notorious criminals of the 19th century. As a banker and fraudster, he soon became a condemned man after it was discovered he’d been stealing money from the bank in which he worked. Captured here in his final moments while an estimated 100,000 Londoners awaited his arrival to the scaffold - it was also one of the last