Female convicts exercising in the Airing Yard at Brixton Prison

Book illustration showing female convicts exercising in the Airing Yard at Brixton Prison, from page 191 of 'The criminal prisons of London and scenes of prison life' by Henry Mayhew and John Binny. "The airing yards at this prison have little of the bare, gravel, school play-ground character, so common with those at the other jails, for here there are grass-plots and flower-beds, so that, were it not for the series of mad-house-like windows piercing the prison walls, a walk in the exercising grounds of Brixton would be pleasant and unprison-like enough. The prisoners exercise principally for one hour - from eight till nine; the laundry-women, however, whose work is laborious, walk for only half the usual time."