But it must always be borne in mind that “absence of evidence does not constitute evidence of absence” – I felt that there must be some primary source material I had missed. Tabitha believes that is the case for her and sets out to prove it which is difficult to do when you are behind bars. The ending was highly rewarding and I will be sending this book off as a gift to many friends this holiday season. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. I understood how Tabitha's natural mien of anger and depression caused people to dislike her and assume her guilt.

Piecing together the day of the crime with the help of reluctant witnesses in the village, CCTV footage and the help of an ex-con turned friend and supporter, Tabitha's story takes the reader through the brutality of the prison system to some frankly ludicrous and unlikely exchanges in court.Publication information is for the USA, and (unless stated otherwise) represents the first print edition. Folkingham , eight miles north of Bourne on the A15, is now merely a large village but it was once an important place in Lincolnshire because it was the seat of the Quarter Sessions, the higher court that dispensed justice for the area each fortnight from the Assembly Rooms at the Greyhound Hotel, which is why the austere House of Correction, or prison, was built there.

In broad terms, a house of correction does not refer to a holding cell, as were the cells in the town hall. In this sense, a preference for this form of punishment over the traditional prison may have contributed to the continued use of incarceration in bridewell even in the face of repeated criticisms and legal obstacles.In the longer term prisons eventually became more like houses of correction rather than the reverse. She is a very prickly, angry person and at the same time she was muddle-headed, confused, forgetful and unable to concentrate and so on. The Warwick House of Correction or Bridewell stood on the corner between Saltisford Rock (now Theatre Street) and Bridewell Lane (formerly Wallditch and now Barrack Street); the site is roughly where the central library was located until recently. The only part that remains is the gatehouse and governor's house, now preserved at the end of an impressive driveway with wrought iron entrance gates, with the wording HOUSE OF CORRECTION A D 1825 engraved below the pediment, the date being that of the first phase of extensions rather than the original building date.