A short history: 800 years of British prisons
Posted: February 26, 2015 Filed under: Facts & stats | Tags: Elizabeth Fry, magna carta, The criminal justice act, The Industrial Revolution, Thomas More, Utopia 1 CommentThe evolution of jails from Magna Carta to modern day
Eight hundred years ago if you wanted to survive in prison you had to have money to buy food, blankets and fuel. And for the following three centuries, death was the most likely sentence. Thankfully things have changed.
Below is a potted history of prisons stretching back almost a thousand years – first in the form of an interactive timeline followed by a detailed history full of fascinating facts.