Prison Reform according to Oscar Wilde

This letter, written in 1898 from Paris was Oscar Wilde's last known letter to the Editor of the Daily Chronicle. In it he discuss the need for urgent reform in England's gaols. In it you will hear about Wandsworth prison having in cell lavatories. Such was the outcry from the neighbourhood that a prison should be built with in cell facilitries that they were soon removed.

Wilde was released from prison in May of 1897 and died in Paris some 3 years later. The average life expectancy of someone released from prison at this time was no more than 4 years.