King's Bench Prison
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The King's Bench Prison was a prison in Southwark, south London, England, from the Middle Ages until it closed in 1880. It took its name from the King's Bench court of law in which cases of defamation
King's Bench Prison by Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson (1808–11)
The King's Bench Prison in 1830.
The Mock Election, an 1827 painting by Benjamin Robert Haydon. The artist himself spent several terms in the jail for debt.