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    Millbank Prison or Millbank Penitentiary was a prison in Millbank, Westminster, London, originally constructed as the National Penitentiary, and which...
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  • Millbank is an area of central London in the City of Westminster. Millbank is located by the River Thames, east of Pimlico and south of Westminster. Millbank...
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    Panopticon (redirect from Prison panopticon)
    Newgate Prison and other London prisons prompted the British government to fund the construction of a prison in Millbank at the taxpayers' expense. Based...
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    first state prison in England was the Millbank Prison, established in 1816 with a capacity for just under 1,000 inmates. By 1824, 54 prisons had adopted...
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  • Some of the earliest prisons were Millbank (1816), Parkhurst (1838), Pentonville (1842) and Portland (1846). During this time, prison administrators began...
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  • bout of illness and depression, begins visits to the women's wards of Millbank Prison. Whilst there she becomes entranced by the spiritualist Selina Dawes...
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    most-visited art museums in the world. The gallery is on Millbank, on the site of the former Millbank Prison. Construction, undertaken by Higgs and Hill, commenced...
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    attention of some reformers and led to the creation of Millbank Prison in 1816 and Pentonville prison in 1842. By now the end of transportation to Australia...
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    as Tate Britain, was opened on 21 July 1897, on the site of the old Millbank Prison. Tate made many donations, often anonymously and always discreetly...
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    attention of some reformers and led to the creation of Millbank Prison in 1816 and Pentonville prison in 1842. By now the end of transportation to Australia...
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