By the beginning of the Victorian era, the county gaol at Oxford was no longer a ramshackle, unsanitary enterprise, but a rigorous and austere modern institution. The rowdy, disorderly Georgian gaol became a regimented, eerily quiet Victorian version. At Oxford, the magistrates crushed what was left of the old gaol culture of graft and gambling […] The post Victorian Crime and Punishment appeared first on Oxford Castle & Prison.
