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    Coldbath Fields Prison, also formerly known as the Middlesex House of Correction and Clerkenwell Gaol and informally known as the Steel, was a prison...
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    The Coldbath Fields riot took place in Clerkenwell, London, on 13 May 1833. The riot occurred as the Metropolitan Police attempted to break up a meeting...
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    London's debtors' prisons were the Coldbath Fields Prison, Fleet Prison, Giltspur Street Compter, King's Bench Prison, Marshalsea Prison, Poultry Compter...
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    1794 and its functions were taken over by the Coldbath Fields Prison at Mount Pleasant. The New Prison was rebuilt in 1818 and in 1847, at which time...
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    Clerkenwell (section Prisons)
    (1783−1819), English organist and composer Clerkenwell Priory Coldbath Fields Prison Coldbath Fields Riot 1833 The Nether World "Islington Ward population 2011"...
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    A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer is...
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    he also spent time in Kent, much of it in the county's prisons. While in Coldbath Fields Prison in August 1832, Dando caught cholera—part of a long-running...
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    2023) per hundredweight (112 lb, 51 kg). At Coldbath Fields Prison, the men's counterpart to Tothill Fields, prisoners had to pick 2 lb (910 g) per day...
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    or connect to a large fan for resistance. Penal treadmills were used in prisons during the 19th Century in both Britain and the United States. In early...
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    Richard Carlile. In total, Wright served two years in Newgate and Coldbath Fields prisons, gaining a level of notoriety as the "She-Champion of Impiety"...
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