[ SECRET POST #2598 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2598 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know. Prisons are scary, scary places even today, rife with physical and sexual violence, drug trafficking and dangerous rivalries. Prisons in Victorian England... well. I don't imagine they were much nicer.

Don't forget this was also a time period where the law enacted much harsher punishments for what we'd consider more minor crimes, like theft where nobody is hurt/killed. You could be hanged for a petty crime, for example. In contrast, getting deported to Australia for stealing was the "light" punishment.

So yeah, sounds rather dark to me.

[intrigueing]

Yeah, in the blue carbuncle Holmes even points out that sending the guy to jail will make him a thug for life, whereas sparing him might allow him to change his ways and make something of himself.

[(Anonymous)]

Deportation was finished 30 years before Holmes was written. I agree with your general point, though.

[(Anonymous)]

More like 21 years, actually.