Prisons simply held people until their creditors had been paid or their fate decided by judges; options included execution ( ended 1964 ), flogging ( 1962 ), the stocks ( 1872 ), the pillory ( 1830 ), the ducking stool ( 1817 ), joining the military, or penal transportation to America or Australia ( 1867 ).
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Once again-I ask-what admin action is requested here and 2 ) under what basis is this action to occur ? are people just going to be allow to accuse me of being all and sundry depending on whoever dislike ? maybe we should just get a virtual ducking stool out and be done with it .-- talk ) 23 : 43, 22 June 2008 ( UTC)
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:: : : : * Clarified it . " Prisons were designed to hold people until their creditors had been paid, or their fate decided by judges : usually execution, the stocks, flogging, the pillory, the ducking stool, or, until the practice ended in 1868, penal transportation to one of the American colonies or to Australia . " contribs 04 : 58, 20 September 2009 ( UTC)
