By the 1840s prison conditions were rapidly improving in Britain. Until the early 1820s conditions in prisons were often grim, though they varied a lot from one prison to another.
Ggghhh
the settlement of medieval London was awful they not clean they are dirty they chuck poo and wee out the window they were over crowded they even wash their clothes in the river. that was their settlement
The biggest reformer was Dorothea Dix. She traveled around the world to improve the conditions of the mentally ill and the prisons at which they were held like caged animals.
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In a Puritan prison one was not allowed to wear clothes, and not given food. Prisoners were forced to live upon the donations of the jailers.
By the 1840s prison conditions were rapidly improving in Britain. Until the early 1820s conditions in prisons were often grim, though they varied a lot from one prison to another.
The London Dungeon is a tourist attraction situated in vaults under London Bridge station. It is designed to look like a medieval prison.
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prison conditions were very harsh for prisoners .
One word, HARD!
Absolutely dreadful. Also gin-soaked.
There were steamboats, carriages, trains, and horses.
there was no cars in 1840 there was carts thou
it was all dirty it was all dirty it was all dirty
for many abysmal due to the over crowding, lack of money to rent .
Yes-It's called Lurigancho and because there are too many prisoners versus guards, they have to elect prisoners that run the show. The conditions are terrible.
In the 1840s, Dorothea Dix investigated the conditions in which mentally ill patients were living. She often found them in prisons, and they were treated like criminals. Dix worked to improve the conditions in which mentally ill patients lived, and she worked to get state governments to build mental hospitals.