(Description) Figure 12 The chapel, on the ‘separate system’ at Pentonville Prison. The partitions placed between prisoners were meant to prevent communication but soon became covered in graffiti, and had to be stripped and cleaned. Warders placed at inspection points could not prevent prisoners from drawing on the stalls. Sometimes this was because they fell asleep on duty.

Session 3: Inside the prison school

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The tiered ranks of seating in this black and white drawing of a chapel rise and recede almost to ceiling height. They are filled with seated figures in partitioned cubicles. At the rear of the room is an organ, and two supervisors sit on raised podiums in the left foreground.