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Billy Kasheta
Steven Shaw
Anthony de Grandis
Ejalam Bravo
Lauren Gayle
Sarah Hicks

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Christmas Carol ~ Prision System in Victorian England

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Christmas Carol ~ Prision System in Victorian England

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My Topic = Prision Systems in Victorian England
Members of my group are = Billy, Steven, Lauren, Anthony, and Ejalam

BILLY ~ From The year 1800 through 1840, Victorians we’re worried about the inflation in the rate of crime in England. All of them believed in punishment for all who did wrong, but they were curious as to what punishments should be in terms of the crime. They could have sent them to prisons, but the prisons of that time were underrun, could hold many prisoners, and were extremely old (some even dated back to the early 1700’s). Even though this idea sounded bad, the prisons became the way of punishment by the year 1830. Because they chose to use prisions, England built new prisions, and extended old run down prisons to house more prisoners. However, the Victorians believed strongly that the prisions needed to be places that had unpleasant living conditions (even in the new prisons) and that the prisoners should do hard manual Labour during their time.

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BILLY ~ From this picture, one can clearly see the miserable living conditions prisoners were living in. Prisoners would have lived in there for years either alone or with other prisoners

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Victorian prisons were most commonly in old buildings or in old castles. They were mostly small and very badly run. Over 100s of sentences lead to the death penalty. The people not in prison wanted them to be bad to punish and make prisoners suffer.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/victorian-prison/

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Ejalam~The prisons in Victorian England offenses went up from about 5,000 per year in 1800 to about 29,000 per year in 1840. The prisoners were mostly small,old and badly-run. Some of the punishments that were given to the prisoners were transportation sending the offenders to America,Australia or Can Diemens Land or execution hundreds of offenses the death penalty. The Victorians said that the prisons should be unpleasant to deter people from committing crimes. Once the prisoners were faced for their crimes or faults their pun intended was doing hard and boring work such as walking a treadwheel  or picking oakum( separating strands of rope).
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/victorian-prison/

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Prison in Victoria England were describes as "A place of confinement for persons labeled unfit to live in normal society." These prison systems contain courts, prisons, debtor's prisons and large sentences for felons. During the Victorian era, crime rose rapidly sovprisons had to be expanded. Offenses went up approximately 5,000 per year. All types of prisoners were kept in a single area with no privacy.
“Victorian Era Prisons.” Victorian Era Life in England. Victorians Society & Daily Life, www.victorian-era.org/victorian-era-prisons.html.

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Lauren~Victorians were firm believers in punishments for criminals. Common punishments were transferring the prisoner to America or Australia and also having the prisoner face the death penalty.  In the 1830s people were having doubts about the punishments and during that time a lot of prisons were being built so they felt prison was the answer. The Victorians also had specific ideas as to what the wanted the prison to be like. They felt it should be an unpleasant place to prohibit them from committing crimes they also felt that they should do boring hard work in silence so they could own up to what they did. One of the examples for punishments were walking a tread wheel and having to separate strands of rope. They continued to build prisons because they soon became overcrowded. Different religions felt as though the prisoners should be treated differently some felt like the purpose of a prison is punish and reform others felt the prisoners deserved to be treated kindly or decent. https://www.bl.uk/victorian-britain/articles/victorian-prisons-and-punishments

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SARAH~ Many people wanted to go to prison because there was free food and a roof over their head. As a result to crowding jails, "The Victorians felt that if prison was to be a punishment, then it must offer a deterrent climate, so people would want to avoid being sent there. Thus, Prisons at this time tended to be damp, unhealthy, unsanitary, overcrowded. Most were often in old buildings, such as old castles.” (http://www.victorian-era.org/victorian-era-prisons.html) All residents took advantage of the food so the Victorians changed the amount of food given to the prisoners. "The diet of the convicted prisoner in the gaol was restricted to one pound of bread per day, and for dinner, two pounds of potatoes or half a pound of boiled rice with treacle. No meat was supplied. This restrictive diet led to illness and death among the prisoners, so  the justice ordered that five ounces of meat and soup could be given twice a week and a larger portion of bread on those days when meat was not allowed" (http://www.oldpolicecellsmuseum.org.uk/page_id__533_path__0p75p312p316p.page_id__533_path__0p75p312p316p.aspx) The Victorians started to evaluate the people they put into jail. The put a filter on the expectations of being arrested. “By the Victorian period, prisons held a wide range of offenders serving long sentences as well as petty criminals. They were classified into different groups.” (http://vcp.e2bn.org/justice/page11361-types-of-punishment-imprisonment.html)
In conclusion, prison life in Victorian, England was a want but changed into harsh styles to handle prisoners. Food supply was lessened, the people arrested had to commit a serious crime, and their crime would have to be evaluated.