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jail
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jail: see prison prison, place of confinement for the punishment and rehabilitation of criminals. By the end of the 18th cent. imprisonment was the chief mode of punishment for all but capital crimes.
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In February 1890, Joseph Hargreaves, aged nineteen, was gaoled for a month after assaulting his mother and smashing her furniture.
Youth gangs, masculinity and violence in late Victorian Manchester ... by Davies, Andrew / Journal of Social History
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