The Prisoners is a series of three etchings by Francisco de Goya, depicting imprisoned men with indistinct faces, bound with leg irons in stress positions.
After Ceán Bermúdez died in 1829, the album was later in the collection of Tomás Harris and since 1975 it has been held by the British Museum in London.
Tan bárbara la seguridad como el delito ("The custody is as barbarous as the crime") shows a prisoner in ragged clothes with his hair and beard overgrown, shackled to heavy chains in a squatting position, with his hands clasped as if begging or praying.
La seguridad del reo no exige tormento ("The custody of a criminal does not call for torture") shows a man chained in an unnatural diagonal position across the frame, beside a wall with a grate to the right.
Si es delincuente que muera presto ("If he is guilty, let him die quickly") shows a man slumped forward to the right of an arched opening.