There was also a distinct problem with the greedy gaolers. Even if prisoners were found not guilty, gaolers enforced a discharge fee, thus many were forced to stay there – resulting in mass suicide of prisoners. In the nineteenth century, more warders were introduced and there was an influx of borstals.
There was also a lack of supervision – therefore inmates were able to confer and let simmer their criminal psyche. A lack of warders forced conditions such that offenders were mixed. This offered the possibility of rape or acted as schools for crime for young offenders.
Reformists such as Elizabeth Fry ensured that the mixing was abolished and thus crime could not accumulate between generations.
Level 4
Explains either improvements or conditions getting worse
(5-6)
E.g. 'Conditions in prisons got much worse. The ideas for reforming prisoners
were not very pleasant for prisoners. They involved the silent and separate
systems Prisoners were kept in their own cells where they worked by turning a
crank handle round. The isolation sent some of them mad. The silent system
meant that they were not allowed to talk to each other. Sometimes they even
wore masks to stop them communicating. This was very harsh and suicides
went up so it could hardly be called an improvement.'
Answer 2
'People who wanted to change prisons wanted to do this because they
thought the crime rate was rising and they wanted prison to be a deterrent. This is
why they wanted prisoners to do pointless work like oakum picking or walking the
treadmill. They thought that if prisoners were made to do these things they would
hate it so much that this would stop people committing crimes because they would
not want to go back there.
ending of transportation, prisons used more, to reform prisoners,
to stop prisons breeding more crime, to train prisons in useful work, to make it
more of a deterrent, to introduce more order, the work of individuals like Fry and
Howard.
There was also a lack of supervision – therefore inmates were able to confer and let simmer their criminal psyche. A lack of warders forced conditions such that offenders were mixed. This offered the possibility of rape or acted as schools for crime for young offenders.
Reformists such as Elizabeth Fry ensured that the mixing was abolished and thus crime could not accumulate between generations.
