Trip to Lincoln and a look around the castle. This was used until fairly recently as an operational prison (the Red brick building inside the castle grounds).
Now a museum it demonstrates the luxury that the crims were afforded.
The prison had used the Separation System, with the crims being forbidden any form of contact with other inmates. This extended to the prison church with individual cubicles in order to prevent contact. Crims filed along the rows, into a booth and closed the door behind them ensuring isolation from all but God.
Or his spokesperson.
Certainty a shock as you walk down to the front, turn round and see all the heads looking at you.
Once the isolation era finished, Crims were put behind bars with several (!!) other inmates.
From one extreme to the other.
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