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Criminals, like everyone else, had to feed themselves. If they were arrested and held in prison awaiting trial they had to provide their own food by buying it from the jailer or, usually at a less inflated rate, from people who approached the jail windows with food to sell. Those who were too poor to buy food were obliged to rely on legacies given to feed poor prisoners, food confiscated for failing to comply with food standards, and scraps of food collected by "basketmen" who walked about the streets requesting donations of food from passersby. Food from all these sources was evenly divided among the poorest prisoners.
Although there were a large number of prisons, convicted criminals were not sentenced to jail. They were fined (and had to stay in jail until the fine was raised) or hanged (in which case the question of feeding them became moot).
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