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Title: What was the purpose of the Bridewells constructed in England in the 1500s?
Post by: regina nana on Mar 20, 2019
What was the purpose of the Bridewells constructed in England in the 1500s?

• They were prisons designed to incarcerate individuals convicted of serious felony offenses.

• They were early cellular prisons designed for incorrigible juveniles.

• They were workhouses created to provide employment and housing for the unemployed.

• They were asylums sponsored by the Christian church to place wrongdoers in seclusion.


Title: What was the purpose of the Bridewells constructed in England in the 1500s?
Post by: linds on Mar 20, 2019
They were workhouses created to provide employment and housing for the unemployed.