Newgate Gaol

The great civic prison of London, holding common criminals, the condemned, debt-wrecked men and those awaiting trial, sentence or transfer.

Ties

• part of the same custodial chain as Marshalsea Prison and Lion Tower Prison

At the table

One of the three prisons that anchor London's custodial chain; together with Marshalsea and Lion Tower it makes punishment legible by class, offence and political temperature.