Andy Aitchison's 20-Year Study of Britain's Victorian Prisons

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Andy Aitchison spent more than 20 years photographing inside British prisons built during the Victorian era, many of which remain in active use. The resulting book, Incarcerated, documents life for both prisoners and staff within 19th-century architecture that has largely outlasted its original intent.
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