Editors do get jailed - here's the proof

We are always being told that editors risk being sent to jail and therefore take ultimate responsibility for what is published in their newspapers. Now here is photographic proof that it can happen. A picture of legendary editor WT Stead in his prison uniform is up for auction, HoldtheFront Page reports today.
Society of Editors' director Bob Satchwell raised the issue yesterday on BBC Radio 4's The Media Show, arguing that as editors could be sent to prison they should be the ones to judge what went into their papers.
Stead while editor of the Pall Mall Gazette was jailed in 1885 for procuring and abducting a girl. He had bought a 13-year-old Eliza Armstrong from her mother for £5 in order to expose the scandal of child prostitution. The story caused an outrage and began: "The report of our secret commission will be read today with a shuddering horror that will thrill throughout the world."
Stead, who also edited the Northern Echo, was on the Titanic when it sank on its maiden voyage and was killed in the disaster.