Imprisoned by the Victorians (Brutal Prison Lives in Women's Gaols)
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- Victorian prisons were notoriously bad and severely overcrowded, with prisoners confined to cramped cells, silent treatment and hard work. Find out the harsh reality of prison life for women in the 19th Century told with eyewitness accounts from prison guards and the prisoners themselves.
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I wish you covered earlier periods as well as later. The last workhouse here closed in 1972 but that is much shadow banned. Then there is the 1960's film Cathy Come Home, which shows that the respite most working class and poor had from the mid 1970's to the Mid 1980's was only one short period. Much much hidden, covered up deep poverty.
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I used to work in HMP Barlinnie. This is a Victorian prison and is still in use. When inside the walls you can really feel how awful these places were during the victoriana times
Crumlin Road Gaol in Belfast is exactly the same, hopefully they do something link that with Bar-L 😊
Imagine if the walls in these awful places could speak. Am sure the tales would be so horrific that you’d run fast & far away, and never visit again 😢
Is Bar L scheduled for closure?
😢 I wouldn't be surprised if they were haunted from all the sad tragic energy
I couldn't have survived as an inmate.
At the Penhurst Prison in Philadelphia not only were the inmates to remain in silence but when they came out of their cells they had a hood over their head. Absolutely brutal 😮😮😮
My Sunday was tedious and unpleasant. This puts things into perspective. Thanks for the (as always) great work!
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I live directly opposite the old St Clements Bow (E3) workhouse come asylum (fancy flats now). I know it wasnt a prison for criminals, but the poor were treated as criminals. 😮
I hear arguments for arresting the homeless and can see many people think the same as the Victorians did
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It’s a pity that the victorians didn’t reform the criminal code during the period of their era, I agree that crime should have consequences but the Victorians and beyond had a very strange approach to what “let the punishment fit the crime” really stood for, imagine today being sent to prison for stealing an apple 🍎 or imprisoned for being destitute, the whole system stank, and not just because of the unsanitary conditions that they were kept in.
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As someone who has hair down to my waist, I can almost feel the trauma of having it all cut off like these women did. Yikes! As always an entertaining and informative video. Thank you so much.
You're welcome. It's the details like this I find so interesting in history. What people actually said, thought and felt.
Completely agree, from the horses mouth so to speak.
Your crowning glory! : )
I agree.
My long black hair is to my tailbone (if you see Amy Lee from Eveanescence, you'll see mine is the same)
I'm extremely proud of it.
As a Christian, I was always brought up with long hair. It's referred to as a "crowning glory" and to have it forcibly cut from me, would break me.
I'm certain that it was done so as to break the spirit from the start.
Sad... real sad.
Grows back, not like having a limb removed
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Old woman at 60? Maybe then but, not now
Life expectancy at birth, in London in the 1880's was 42.6 years. A 60 year old was the equivalent of a 100 Yr old today
You can be sure the abuse of these females was rife
interesting fact. it is "mother's day" here in the States today. everyone give your mum some love. inside or outside the walls
Thought so too since so many inmates and the children shown in the illustration! How on earth were the little kids taken care of there and what kind of food did they get? I believe it because those are old illustrations and heard children were sometimes in prison with their mothers.🌿
@@MegaLivingIt Most mum's with V young kids would have their children with them, but better be with mother than out on the streets which was where thousands of kid's were scraping by 😢
Brixton prison still exists.
And Wormwood Scrubs
& winchester ' built around 1840 😁
Another great vid FF! I have a pen pal in a female prison and I will so be telling her about the 'great hair battle(s)'!
Nowadays they are all getting into squabbles about makeup and such! Funny how things haven't really changed that much.
Thank you! Good to know you found this history interesting.
What did she do ?
Can you imagine the sex abuse that took place. The wardens perks so to speak.
Terrifying prospect indeed 😢
60 isn't THAT OLD. 😮
agree!! (not old at all)
It was then with much shorter life expectancy.
"Often held in strict (or script) silence." Harsh or only confined which is harder on the human frame regardless if that is a woman or a man?
Prison life was brutal and boring. Working in factories was harsh and dabilitating. Workhouse was shaming and brutal. Unless you were rich I am pretty sure life was rough.
I'd likely have been locked up in an asylum for 'moral insanity' because my daughter was born out of wedlock
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For most of human history, life for most was nasty, brutish and short.
I have my hair to my tailbone... listening to how these women fought like mad when being forced to have their hair cut, must have been extremely traumatic for them.
To have her crowning glory removed from the very start, would of been the beginning of her psychological spiral downward.
No wonder they used any argument they had to hold on to it. 😢
As well as no lady had shoet hair, so they would be recognized instantly as criminals
Better than having your hair shaved during Chemo! Much worse 😭😭😭
A woman of 60 years is not an 'old woman'.
It was then
It is still all about punishment in america!😢
Thank you sir for your wonderful cultural documentary channel . As always iam gathering main information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s first of all person who created prison as place of punishment and personal reform by English jurist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Female prison dame phylum’s frost center is front end maximum security prison for woman . It’s only one of two female prisons in state of Victoria goal, one or earliest buildings erected by British 1841 , had been first and only prison until 1937 .Elizabeth fry ( 1780 - 1840 ) she was English prison reformer , social reformer, philanthropist and Quaker. She was major driving force behind registration to improve treatment of prisoners, especially female in mates , such has been called ( angle of prison ) . She was instrumental in 1823goals act which man dated sex segregation of prisons and female warders for female inmates to protect them fr sexual exploitation. She kept extensive diaries , in which she wrote explicitly of need to protect female prisoners from rape and sexual exploitation. She is also helped to improve British hospital system and treatment to insane . She is also chief promoters of prison reform in Europe. Honestly she deserves honor as I read even in Johannesburg North Africa road named Elizabeth fry street, in USA road is named for fry in North Carolina. In Yorkshire Elizabeth fry ward scar borough general hospital. Really she is inspiring great woman. I hope you like my research. Good luck to you your dearest ones .
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The picture of the female prisoners walking in the prison courtyard in circles had children with them wearing the same prison uniformas the women. Were these the children of the women? If so was this the only time of the day they got to see their young children in silence? I thought that babies born in prison were taken away at birth. Please could you give me anymore information on this please. Thankyou
Wow, what an insight afforded to us here!
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The first thing that strikes me is how after one week, the women would be malnourished and feeling it.
They get no green, red or orange food, only porridge (carbohydrates), potatoes (carbohydrates), and some meat (some nutrients and protein).
Where is the essential fat?
Where is any vitamin C and B (apart from folate in the meat)?
They had hardly any exposure to sunshine, so they'd be vitamin D deficient, and prone to disease.
Poor women, regardless of their crimes, but then the average poor person in London probably ate just like them unless they lived in the countryside.
The inmates would start to feel depressed most likely, and when they couldn't sleep at night, there was no bedside lamp to put on, no ability to read, no TH-cam video to watch and no ability to get up and make a hot cup of tea on a freezing cold night.
Being unable to speak with other women at most times of the day would have been very difficult for most women to bear.
Insane how much better, in this account at least, prisoners were treated as compared to contemporaries at the workhouse. The food rations alone were far better.
The issue of getting her hair is not vanity. In the Bible the hair is the crowning beauty of a woman.
Violation of human rights
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What gets me is that crime back then would be something as basic as stealing boots or a shawl or a loaf of bread could land you in prison or possibly Australia for trying to survive that's nuts..but now indays petty larceny similar to this can still land you in jail 😢..and haha me with my near chin length 1930s long bob close to clara bows would be considered radical and racy to them.. but is outdated and frumpy now but even I knew the hair cut theyd have gotten was to prevent lice and still have been a tad longer than my current cut..if I was ran in back then for apple larceny I'd take the stupid cut just to get it over with lol..hair grows back..😅but 60 old ?? My mom at 65 must've been ancient if she was in the clink during those days 😅
What a telling taste of the times that women rebelliously and proudly claimed rheir husbands owned their hair(and the rest of them!)
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting in death row
You can crush us, you can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-oh, the guns of Brixton
The money feels good
And your life you like it well
But surely your time will come
As in Heaven as in Hell
You see, he feels like Ivan
Born under the Brixton sun
His game is called survivin'
At the end of the harder they come
You know it means no mercy
They caught him with a gun
No need for the Black Maria
Goodbye to the Brixton sun
You can crush us, you can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-oh, the guns of Brixton
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
You can crush us, you can bruise us
And even shoot us
But oh-oh, the guns of Brixton
Shot down on the pavement
Waiting in death row
His game was survivin'
As in Heaven as in Hell
You can crush us, you can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh-oh, the guns of Brixton
Oh-oh, the guns of Brixton
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Nowadays ,your hair isn't you.
If you were sick and lost it all
You would still be the person
You.had.always been.
Tell that to anyone losing their hair, the sentiment behind your comment is true, but it is a sore loss to anyone IMO
Are the prison guards giving the true picture I wonder in these accounts? Are modern prisons much better? There's nothing about toilet arrangements for the women. There's no indication there was much violence or neglect or how mental illness was dealt with. The food doesn't seem to include any fruit or vegetables (necessary for health) though one image appeared to show cabbages being grown in the grounds outside of the prison. Another picture shows women exercising while holding the hands of their children but there's no mention of children in prison. It's surprising that the women were allowed to have scissors for their tasks. I don't think that would be allowed now. I'm sure I would not survive in these prisons but hair cutting would be the least of my problems. It's just hair. It will regrow, and they are allowed bonnets to cover their heads it seems. It doesn't mention how short the hair would be cut.
prsion is supposed to be about punishment, that is the rehab, if it doesn't affect you towards behaving then should never leave aka three strikes
😮 back then, those women were probably stealing just to survive the miserable poverty in those days. Most of them were hardly criminals.
Your philosophy applies NOW when it's a lot easier for people to find steady work and means for a healthy life. Back then they sent people to prison for stealing food or clothing
Now prisoners, have more than i do tv, game stations plenty of food , no back breaking work ... disgusting
Removal of freedom is horrific
And if prison was like this now instead of a holiday camp the crime would drop very quickly, until the softness of their rights stops they will carry on offending,.
Not necessarily, the death penalty doesn't even stop recidivism
The people who call it holiday camp have usually never been there 😂
The most disgusting part about all this is married women's bodies were not their own and belonged to their husbands. This is horrible and surely in 2024 there would not be any laws telling women what they can and cannot do with their own bodies...oh wait, that's right, in the US there are.
Go to another state
Yeah I'll get It they are sailing the hair Over seas if I were the case favorite color from balls for disease
The Tories were the dominant political party in these times.
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