About Prison History - 19th Century Prison History
About Prison History - 19th Century Prison History
Aug 9, 2019
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In the early 1800s, the horrific conditions and brutality of the English prison system was taken for granted—with the conditions ignored! Elizabeth Fry was determined to do something about it. She was a Quaker, and was passionate about reading the Bible herself, and making the Bible accessible to those in need. The daughter of a prominent banking family and the wife of a successful tea dealer, she used her influence to visit female prisoners in London’s Newgate Prison—where she discovered appall
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Early 1800s British prisons used treadmills for punishment, not fitness. Inmates endured endless steps for 'moral reform' until banned in 1898. The prison treadmill, also called a treadwheel, was introduced in Britain in 1818 as a form of hard labor. By 1822, reform societies officially recommended its use to instill discipline in the country's overcrowded prisons. For decades, it was a central feature of the penal system. Inmates often spent hours daily performing the grueling, repetitive task.
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