Source A The Georgian and Victorian prisons inside Lincoln Castle
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Eduqas Component 2E Crime and punishment in Britain, c.500 to the present day
Lincoln Castle had fallen into disuse before being used as the site of the county gaol and courthouse in the sixteenth century. This was the gaol visited by John Howard in 1775 and included in his book The State of Prisons. Howard was one of the reformers behind the 1779 Penitentiary Act which recommended solitary confinement, hard labour and religious teaching for prisoners.
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