For two centuries, Dartmoor Prison has stood in the midst of bleak, misty moorland, where forbidding weather and isolation add to the feeling of punishment.
Built at Princetown to house French prisoners of war, the foundation stone was laid in 1806. The French were then joined by American PoWs, but so many consequently died the jail was closed in 1816, the year after the Battle of Waterloo.
The jail and its farm reopened in 1850 at about the time prisoners stopped being transported abroad as...
