Prison

Alcatraz: Rules and Regulations Playing Cards
Rules and regulations that guided prison life in America’s most notorious prison.

Bone Playing Cards
My late mother found these miniature cards in a skip around 50 years ago.

Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen
Playing cards published by the Dutch Prison Service, giving a look behind the gates of Judicial / Custodial institutions

Hand made WW2 Prisoner of War Playing Cards
made by German soldiers held captive by US troops

Kolotushki
Kolotushki playing cards designed by Vitalii Buslovskikh, Russia, 2000.

Pack of Thieves?
“Pack of Thieves? 52 Port Arthur Lives” playing cards documenting life in an Australian penal settlement.

Prisoners of War
Hand-made playing cards by French prisoners of war in Porchester Castle, Hampshire, c.1796.

Russian criminal tattoos and playing cards
Russian criminal tattoos and playing cards, United Kingdom, 2018.