PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE WOMENS MOVEMENT
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Sanitation was deplorable and many institutions were in disrepair.
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Prisoners were offered opportunities to better themselves, often learning a trade and getting an education.
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Runaway children were separated from violent criminals to keep them safe.
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Many prisoners were left in dark cells, unclothed and chained to the wayll.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Before the 1950s, prison conditions were grim. Inmates were regularly caged and chained, often in places like cellars and closets. They were also often left naked and physical abuse was common.
Detailed explanation-2: -They tended to be damp, unhealthy, insanitary and over-crowded. All kinds of prisoners were mixed in together, as at Coldbath Fields: men, women, children; the insane; serious criminals and petty criminals; people awaiting trial; and debtors. Each prison was run by the gaoler in his own way.
Detailed explanation-3: -A prison, gaol or jail is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as a form of punishment.
Detailed explanation-4: -They believed that if prisoners were left alone in complete silence, with nothing to occupy their minds but thoughts of their misdeeds, they would become genuinely penitent. (Hence, the building was known as a “penitentiary.”) The place was utterly silent. Guards walked the halls with socks over their shoes.