Prison and Penal Reform in the 1800s
Crimes punishable by hanging in the 1800s
In the 1800s you could be hanged for:• murder
• arson
• forgery
• cutting down trees
• stealing horses or sheep
• destroying turnpike roads
• stealing from a rabbit warren
• pickpocketing goods worth a shilling
• being out at night with a blackened face
• being an unmarried mother concealing a stillborn child
Here is an account of a prison of the time. Newgate Prison was known as Hell Above Ground
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