Imprisoned by the Victorians (Brutal Prison Lives in Women's Gaols)

Victorian prisons were notoriously bad and severely overcrowded, with prisoners confined to cramped cells, silent treatment and hard work. Find out the harsh reality of prison life for women in the 19th Century told with eyewitness accounts from prison guards and the prisoners themselves.

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Credits: Narration - markmanningmedia.com
CC BY - A barber cutting a girl's hair, grumpy nurse carrying a bowl by Wellcome Collection; Old prison window, close up shot of Oxford prison, tracking shot of Oxford prison by Videvo.com; Newgate Prison door by Хомелка
CC BY - SA - Near this site stood millbank prison by Spudgun67; Surviving ditch of millbank prison from cureton street by GrindtXX; Wall of hm prison brixton by David Anstiss via geograph.co.uk

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