“Barred and grilled, and dominated by a provisor who was more of a political gaoler than a teacher, the place looked like a prison, and it was.”

“After a deeply traumatic childhood, where his father left him to rot in Newgate prison, Sweeney takes violent revenge against the gaoler who tormented him in prison.”

“David Drew made a queasily seedy GM while Ashley Page brought a calculating cruelty to the lecherous gaoler.”

“Hughes's central concern was to display the suffering of the convicts and the viciousness of their gaolers.”

“The security was furnished and she was delivered to the bondsmen as her gaolers.”

“This confusion, that they are gaolers not intimates, contributes to their undoing.”