This short film explores Victorian punishments through the eyes of John, a young offender who was sent to prison for six months ... Picking oakham, being put to 'the crank', being whipped and ...

1880, a Police man in the traditional uniform of the Victorian period. Prison discipline,1884. A Dartmoor prisoner turning the crank as solitary punishment. Work in prison included, pulling apart ...

In order to reform idle convicts and combat crime that plagued the Victorian era ... use of treadwheels was abolished in Britain by the Prisons Act of 1898. So the next time you finish a grueling ...