Monday, November 17, 2025

Vintage Mugshots Of Victorian Child Offenders

Thomas Savage, 11, was given 4 days hard labor and 10 strokes of a birch cane at Wandsworth Prison for stealing some iron, in December 1872.

In the early 1870s, Wandsworth Prison in London produced haunting photographs of child offenders, many of whom were harshly punished for petty thefts that today would barely merit a warning. 

Thomas Goodstone, 14, was given 14 days hard labor at Wandsworth Prison for stealing 7lbs of pork over the Christmas period in 1872.


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