House of Correction: A twisty and shocking thriller from the master of psychological suspense

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The floor levels were changed too, making the ground floor rooms slightly lower and those on the first floor taller. Second] Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1820), p.

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Bare boards to sleep on, bread and gruel to eat and work at a treadmill or stone-breaking were standard for felons undergoing a short sentence. It held many more prisoners than New Prison, the county prison intended to hold prisoners awaiting trial in Middlesex.

This imposing structure was once the gateway to a prison capable of accommodating up to 70 wrongdoers. House of Correction is set on a moated site raised above the rural peaceful land of Folkingham, Lincolnshire, an attractive village on a historic route, lined on each side by handsome buildings. The House of Correction shares the site of the once great castle that dominated the village of Folkingham in the Middle Ages.

Shoemaker, Prosecution and Punishment: Petty Crime and the Law in London and Rural Middlesex (Cambridge, 1991), chap. Inspections of the prisons at the time mention the 6 cells at Brighton and also 32 cells at the house of correction at Lewes – but no other Brighton establishment. This book took me forever to In addition, over half were whipped, particularly those deemed guilty of theft, vagrancy, and lewd conduct and nightwalking (prostitution).