Stephen Haddelsey"London's Bastille": The Brutal History Of Coldbath Fields PrisonColdbath prisoners at the tread-wheel, and others exercising, (1864). Image: public domainVast sums and over 10 years had been consumed in the erection of the jail, and its design incorporated many of the key recommendations made by Howard and other reformers. On paper, the Coldbath Fields House of Correction must have seemed an ideal place to confine the large numbers of political prisoners arrested as a result of these draconian measures. Image: public domainThe story of Coldbath Fields House of Correction is, then, not merely one of prison conditions and reform at the end of the 18th century, it is one of high politics and public reputations. London's Bastille: Mutineers, Radicals and Murder in Coldbath Fields House of Correction, by Stephen Haddelsey, published by the History Press.