Separate sleeping-cell in one of the new wings of the female convict prison at Brixton

Book illustration showing a separate sleeping-cell in one of the new wings of the female convict prison at Brixton, from page 181 of 'The criminal prisons of London and scenes of prison life' by Henry Mayhew and John Binny. "The cells in the east and west wings, though smaller than those in the old part of the prison, have not nearly so jail-like a look about them; for the sides of these are built of corrugated iron, and though fitted with precisely the same furniture as the [old] cells ... they greatly resemble, as we have said, the cabin of a ship ... whilst the arrangements made for the ventilation of each chamber are as perfect as they well can be under the circumstances."