The literature on crime, punishment and prisons has been center of attention in recent decades for scholars. Both historical and contemporary studies in local and global level have become prominent. Especially history of prisons constitutes a promising area to be discovered since it is also not an easily reachable field. Kent F. Schull’s book titled “Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire: Microcosms of Modernity” makes an important contribution to the field as being the first book written in English on Ottoman prisons.