Changes in prisons
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- Changes in prisons
- New
- Elizabeth Fry
- implemented in Newgate
- women prison
- religious teachings
- implemented in Newgate
- John Howard
- wrote a book about prisons
- tour of the country
- Robert Peel
- home secretary
- implemented the Gaol Act
- 90 new prisons
- Elizabeth Fry
- Old
- only used to hold people waiting for a trial
- people who had debts
- prison wardens would not get paid
- they would get paid by the prisoners
- lead to curruption
- they would get paid by the prisoners
- mixed genders
- ****
- children mixed with adults
- no segregation of crime
- the cells were dark and small
- named "Schools of crime"
- only used to hold people waiting for a trial
- attitudes towards the change
- useful vs. pointless
- prisoners were asked to work
- the prisoners wouldn't do anything useful
- separate vs. silent
- costs a lot to make individual cells
- Untitled
- useful vs. pointless
- New
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