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Prisons

Prisons Across History

Whether THROWN IN WHEN IN ROME BY ROYAL DECREE

dungeons, A CAVE Roman King Henry II of England
ingenuity
commissions the first prisons to
Ancient cultures turns be used for punishment rather
towers or like Mesopotamia a large than just as
and Egypt used indoor a holding
islands, see how underground caves water
reservoir place for
and caverns as
prisons have into a trial or
dungeons to hold
prison. execution.
evolved over prisoners while they The Cancere Marmertinum houses This
await execution, or many famous prisoners, including includes
the centuries before being sold on the Chieftain of Gaul, St Peter and Newgate
into slavery. St Paul. in London.
2ND CENTURY BCE 60 BCE 1166

THE AGE DEPORTATION TO AUSTRALIA NOWHERE could not see
Guards
OF REFORM Private companies £3 per prisoner for TO HIDE prisoners all the time
but, believing they
Britain leads the are paid transportation Jeremy Bentham were being watched,
they changed their
world by paying By 1868 creates his behaviour!
prison guards, Panopticon
stopping prisoners 168,000 design for
paying for food have been prisons. Just
and clothes, sent to like the hub
placing prisons Australia of those sent and spokes of a
are women
under government wheel, prisoners
control, and believe the
creating the guards can view
first prison them from a
inspections for central point at
prisoner welfare. all times.

19TH CENTURY 19TH CENTURY 1791

A DIFFERENT PRISON ON AN The Soviet Gulag or A FIRST FOR CHINA
labour camp system has
APPROACH INDUSTRIAL SCALE 30,000 CAMPS The No1 Prison in Beijing is open as the

Canada creates its first women- first purpose-built prison of its kind in
the country. The design is modelled on
only prison, Mercer Reformatory, in that of Pentonville Prison in London.
Toronto. It recognises the different
needs of female prisoners, and creates
an atmosphere of homeliness for The largest holds
25,000 PRISONERS
rehabilitation back into society.

people are sent to the
camps between 1929
and 1953

1874 MID 20TH CENTURY 1912

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