Plot: mother son incest, incest, prison rape, castration, perversion, sexual abuse, vengeance, father son relationship, infidelity, sex in car, mutilation, human nature Workhouses, however, did hold prisoners for longer periods of time. Legal codes were standardized, and law enforcement was increasingly supervised. Because, while the narrative ingredients of brutal power plays between inmates, callous authority figures — and, yes, sex in the cells — are staples, the way in which they're treated can have very different results. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, various forms of physical punishment or public shaming were applied to both trivial and brutal crimes alike.
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