Lincoln Gaol and Prison

• 3 ways the gaol was unfair

  debtors could buy better conditions

  gaolers were not paid so prisoners were extorted

  criminals and debtors were mixed together
• why did prison populations increase by the 18th century

  transportation increased due to the bloody code

  increased number of criminals
• give 3 problems with the prison during the 18th century

  men and women were mixed

  there were no rules on how to run a prison

  buildings lacked proper sanitation leading to outbreaks of diseases like typhus
• what did john howard do

  provide medical treatment

  better food and sanitation

  doctors and religious figures accessible
• what did g.o paul do

  separated men and women

  exercise and ventilation

  prisoners in single cells around the gaolers
• what did elizabeth fry do

  improved conditions for female prisoners

  set up chapel and school

  provide bedding

  influenced gaols act to improve conditions in prisons
• who was kept in cobb hall?

  debtors

  people awaiting trail

  convicted criminals
• what improvements were made in the georgian prison?

  treated more leniently

  criminals housed in felon's wing

  separated exercise yards

  washrooms
• what were 3 problems with the georgian prison?

  gaolers could exploit prisoners

  prisoners were used as free labour

  castle walls needed renovation
• who stayed in the crown wing in victorian prison?

  prisoners waiting for their trials

  criminals waiting to be executed
• where did the guards stay in georgian prison

  big rooms with large windows and a fireplace
• what system was the victorian prison

  separate system
• how did public executions take place

  noose wrapped around neck and then cart would be dragged by a horse
• what were the cobb hall gallows

  more humane way of executing people
• who was the first person to be executed by the cobb hall gallows

  elizabeth whiting
• what did william marwood do

  created the method of calculating the perfect rope length using someone's height and weight
• who was the first person to be privately executed in cobb hall

  priscilla biggadike
• what did the gaols act do

  made prisons more secure

  separation between sex

  doctors and chaplains

  reform prisoners
• what did the debtor's act do

  limited courts' ability to sentence debtors causing the population to drop
• what did the prison act do

  home secretary controlled prisons leading to lincoln prison being shut down
• what did the capital punishment amendment act do

  bad public hangings