The brutality of 19th-century prisons
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The brutality of 19th-century prisons
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Study: California's 12 oldest prisons need major fixes
Study: California's 12 oldest prisons need major fixes
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19th-century British prisons were hell on earth. Women and children were crammed into freezing, filthy cells at Newgate Prison, surviving in unimaginable squalor without basic rights or dignity. Appalled by the brutal conditions, Elizabeth Fry refused to look away. Armed with unwavering courage, this fierce Quaker reformer marched straight into the darkness of Newgate. She bypassed terrified guards, befriended the desperate inmates, and set up a school for the imprisoned children. She establishe
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Prisons weren’t always part of justice. ⚖️ For most of history, punishments were public — whipping, branding, even exile. The first “true” prison as we know it began in 1790 with the Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia. What started as a place for reflection slowly turned into something else… a business. 💰 By the 1800s, inmates were used as cheap labor. By the 20th century, prisons had become billion-dollar industries. So now we have to ask: are prisons really about rehabilitation, or are they j
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Writing in 1935, an ex-prisoner wrote: ‘if, that is, society’s real object [through prisons] is the reformation of the criminal—precious little progress will be made through the efforts of the present crop of wardens.’ These words were written by the same man who long-jumped 10 ft from the highest roof of Charlestown State Prison in Massachusetts, to escape to another building when he was only twenty-two. In 2012, Choi Gap-bok so vehemently believed he was framed after his arrest, that he chose
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