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Overcrowded Prisons
Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the past behind the present. The late 18th century reveals the origins of the overcrowding crisis in UK prisons.
Image: John Howard visiting a prison and Howard portrait inset. Engraving 1880.
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Tue 9 Oct 2007
21:30
大象传媒 Radio 4
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