Newgate Prison (also known as the Old Bailey after the street on which it stands) now stands upon its site. The original door from a prison cell used to house St. Oliver Plunkett in 1681 is on display at St. Peter's Church in Drogheda, Ireland. The original iron gate leading to the gallows was used for decades in an alleyway in Buffalo, New York, USA and is currently housed in that city at Canisius College. Other famous prisoners at Newgate include: The phrase "[as] black as Newgate's knocker" is a Cockney reference to the door knocker on the front of the prison.
The Prison House The Prison House The Prison House is the sixth novel written by John King, published in 2004 by Jonathan Cape. The main character in the book is an Englishman, Jimmy Ramone, who has reached a crossroads in his life. After many months of drifting and drinking his way around Europe he finds himself incarcerated for two years in Seven Towers, a notorious prison in an unnamed south European country. Although Jimmy has always been an outsider, he is now a fully-fledged alien who doesn't understand the language or customs of the other inmates. The prison is squalid, violent, and full