Cover -- Acknowledgements -- A Note from Reading's Governing Governor -- About the author -- CONTENTS -- List of illustrations -- Foreword Theodore Dalrymple -- Preface -- Timeline -- 1 The Old Reading Gaols -- 2 The New Prison -- 3 Punishments of Former Times -- 4 Executions -- 5 Prisoner C.3.3 Oscar Wilde -- 6 The Ballad of Reading Gaol -- 7 The Easter Rising and Internment -- 8 Invisible Prisoners -- 9 A Pioneering Borstal Correctional Centre -- 10 Starting Again with a Clean Sheet -- 11 Life as a Local Prison -- 12 HM Remand Centre and Young Offender Institution -- 13 'Reading Gaol' Today and in the Future -- Appendix 1: Arrested Development by Theodore Dalrymple -- Appendix 2: Rules for Prisoners (c.1850) -- Appendix 3: Prison Dietary Scales (c.1850) -- Appendix 4: List of Executions -- Prilllary Sources, Internet Sites and Select Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.