Victorian Crank Machine: a soul-crushing gadget designed to break prison inmates

'Cell, with Prisoner at Crank-Labour, In the Surrey House of Correction', from Henry Mayhew's 'London Labour and the London Poor', 1851.
In the grim confines of 19th century British prisons, wardens sought ever more sadistic ways to punish inmates through forced labor. — Read the rest
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