Crowded Cell .........
30.1.2025.
Lincoln's Victorian prison.
'Within months of opening (1848), the prison was crowded. Cholera had struck London's Millbank prison, and convicts due to be sent there had to remain in Lincoln. A wave of rural crime added to the pressure, caused by agricultural depression, and an influx of rowdy labourers (navvies) working on Lincolnshire's new railways, and impoverished Irish emigrants escaping famine.
Without enough cells to hold male prisoners separately, the magistrates abandoned the separate system'
*Taken from the prison information boards.*
Crowded Cell .........
30.1.2025.
Lincoln's Victorian prison.
'Within months of opening (1848), the prison was crowded. Cholera had struck London's Millbank prison, and convicts due to be sent there had to remain in Lincoln. A wave of rural crime added to the pressure, caused by agricultural depression, and an influx of rowdy labourers (navvies) working on Lincolnshire's new railways, and impoverished Irish emigrants escaping famine.
Without enough cells to hold male prisoners separately, the magistrates abandoned the separate system'
*Taken from the prison information boards.*