Victorian Crime & Punishment

By reading the article I was mostly surprised at how the prison treated the prisoners. The prisoners had to be cut off from all humans and were forbidden to speak while wearing masks on their faces at all times. I was also surprised to read that each prisoner had their own private cell and washing area in the cell with them. I noticed that back then that the Victorians came up with a uniform for the officers to wear to know them apart from a regular citizen just like in today’s time. The similarities in today’s time with criminals and their punishments is still pretty close to back then. Criminals if found guilty still goes to prisons and be out into cells and being executed is still a punishment for certain crimes and it is still done among the prison instead out in the opening like in the past until Charles Dickens spoke on it.