In the answer to one of my other question a few days back someone mentioned about liking me to get hard labour. That's not going to happen but what exactly did that cover and when did it stop being given by judges?
2007-12-18 09:23:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Hard labor was abolished because it was a harsh punishment instead of mere confinement.
2007-12-18 09:28:41 · answer #1 · answered by FRAGINAL, JTM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In some prisons, (Pentonville for example) the hard labour was just working against a machine like pushing paddles through sand or winding a handle against a friction nut. From time to time, the warders would tighten or screw the friction nut hence the term 'screw' for prison warder.
2007-12-19 14:35:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
HARD LABOUR CEASED IN 1963 AND THE HARD LABOUR WAS BREAKING ROCKS AT SELECTED PRISONS AROUND THE COUNTRY THE MOST FAMOUS PRISON WAS DARTMOOR THIS PRISON HAD A COUPLE OF QUARRIES WHERE THE PRISONERS SPENT ALL DAY JUST BREAKING ROCKS AND EVEN IN THEM DAYS THE GUARDS WERE ARMED WITH LEE ENFIELD RIFLES
2007-12-18 18:04:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I remember years ago seeing the chain gangs working in the ditches along side the road. They had chains, dogs and the guards had shotguns not tazers(sp).
Didn't matter what the weather was they were in the worst places, hot, wet, bugs snakes etc. How's that sound.
2007-12-18 17:30:29 · answer #4 · answered by madjer21755 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
used to be breaking rocks at a quarry. digging out ditches. (that kind of thing)....once you went through those prison gates that was it. you were the property of the crown. you were there to be punnished. and once you got out, you did not want to go back in. in victorian times, for every day you refused to work, that day was simply added to your sentance. you iether did your time properly, or spent half your life in there. personaly i think they should bring that system back. and the first they put in should be all the weepy liberals that have molly coddled criminals at the expence of the security of this country and its people.
2007-12-18 17:48:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
i don't know when it stopped,but i think they should bring it back, the jails would not be full thats for sure, it was a terrible life for prisoners, nowadays its a hoiday camp so they don't mind going to prison,
2007-12-18 17:43:54 · answer #6 · answered by blackpool lass 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i did hard labour every time i gave birth
2007-12-18 17:28:23 · answer #7 · answered by angel 36 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋