Blackwell's Island Penitentiary, New York: prisoners in uniform are marching towards the penitentiary after hard labour outside, supervised by armed guards. Wood engraving after G.U. Régamey.

"In the penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, where the sketch was taken by our correspoondent, the late M. Regamey, about 600 males and females are confined at one time. The men are kept at work in quarrying and cutting stone, building a sea-wall for the harbour, making roads and gardening, but some of them work at their own skilled trades. Our illustration shows the slavish appearance of a gang of these fellows under the eye of their armed keeper, as they come back from the daily task of hard labour. ..."--Illustrated London news, op. cit. p. 182