Registration is now open for the Dismas House Prison Break 5K, which will take place on May 22, 2010 at 9 a.m. in Westborough, MA.
The run will start at St. Luke’s Church on 1 Ruggles Street and welcomes both runners and walkers. Registration is $25.00, which includes timing at start and finish, medals and [...]
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Even though William Linsey was orphaned at a young age, this rough start did not appear to have any negative impact on him. Linsey was originally born in Palmer, MA in 1746, but at the age of two he went to live with Phinehas Mixture in Dudley, MA. By Linsey’s own account, Mixture raised him [...]
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Also tagged Branding, Burglary, Connecticut, Forgery, Fraud, Imprisonment, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Theft, Whipping
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Monday, December 14, 2009
John Warren has just posted an article on his New York History blog about a new online exhibit by the New York Correction History Society. The exhibit chronicles the last execution to be carried out by hanging in the state of New York.
The hanging of John Greenwall for murder and burglary took place on December [...]
Monday, November 30, 2009
air and exercise
– 1. a short term of imprisonment, hence “two stretches of air and exercise” means two years in prison; 2. working in the stone quarry at Blackwell’s Island or at Sing Sing.
State Prison at Sing Sing, New York, 1855 – Image via Wikipedia
In England, air and exercise originally referred to someone being [...]
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Note: This post is part of a series on Convict Transportation to the American colonies.
The American Revolution ended the British practice of transporting convicts to the American colonies and threw Great Britain’s criminal justice system into chaos. With no place to send its convicted felons, and without a back-up plan in place, England suddenly [...]
Note: This post is part of a series on Convict Transportation to the American colonies.
Lots of convict servants tried to run away from their owners in an attempt to escape harsh treatment from them or to regain their freedom and possibly return to Great Britain, or both. Almost as soon as the practice of convict [...]
Note: This post is part of a series on Convict Transportation to the American colonies.
On July 15, 1751 the New-York Gazette, or Weekly Post-Boy reported that Onesiphorus Lucas was executed in Annapolis in a follow-up to a newspaper story that appeared two weeks earlier about how Lucas was found guilty of burglary and sentenced to [...]
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Also tagged Assault, Attempted Murder, Branding, Burglary, Convict Transportation, Counterfeiting, Execution, Forgery, Maryland, Pillory, Robbery, Virginia
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If the 50-degree climate of the abandoned copper mine doesn’t make you shiver, the thought that these underground tunnels once served as sleeping quarters for convicted criminals will.
The Old New-Gate Prison and Copper Mine, a National Historic Landmark and State Archaeological Preserve in East Granby, CT, provides a fun, educational journey back to [...]
Note: This post is part of a series on Convict Transportation to the American colonies.
While the American press criticized the practice of British convict transportation, Daniel Defoe enthusiastically supported it in his novel The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders. Moll Flanders is the most well-known character in literature to have been [...]
Note: This post is part of a series on Convict Transportation to the American colonies.
James Dalton vividly experienced the strong arm of the law at a young age when he sat between the knees of his father, who was riding in a cart that was taking him to the gallows to be hanged for robbery. [...]
