"Prisoners working at the Tread-wheel, and others exercising... in the Vagrants' Prison, Coldbath Fields."
(Criminal Prisons in London and Scenes of Prison Life by H. Mayhew and J. Binny, first published in 1862.)"The men were allowed to keep their earnings.
The women received "one shilling per week for washing, and four pence
in every shilling which they earn by sewing... standing on wooden gratings,
washing away at the wooden troughs ranged around the spacious wash-house...
with their bare red arms, working the sodden flannels against a wooden
grooved board that is used to save the rubbing of clothes... Two women
in the centre are turning the handles of the wringing machine... scattered
about the place are tubs full of brown wet sheets, large baskets of blankets,
and piles of tripey-looking flannels; whilst a dense white mist of steam
pervades the entire atmosphere."
"Prisoners working at the Tread-wheel, and others exercising... in the Vagrants' Prison, Coldbath Fields."
"The wash-house and ironing room at Brixton Prison."