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The relationship between prisons and mental illness has preoccupied prison
administrators, physicians, and reformers from the establishment of the modern
prison service in the nineteenth century to the current day. Here we take the
case of Pentonville Model Prison, established in 1842 with the aim of reforming
convicts through religious exhortation, rigorous discipline and training, and the
imposition of separate confinement in its most extreme form. Our article
demonstrates how following the introduction of separate confinement, the prison
chaplains rather than the medical officers took a lead role in managing the minds
of convicts. However, instead of reforming and improving prisoners' minds,
Pentonville became associated with high rates of mental disorder, challenging the
institution's regime and reputation. We explore the role of chaplains, doctors,
and other prison officers in debating, disputing, and managing cases of mental
breakdown and the dismantling of separate confinement in the face of mounting
criticism.