Elizabeth Fry

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Elizabeth Fry
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What you need to know about Fry

• She was a Quaker
• She was a woman
• She was a prison reformer

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The Industrial Revolution

• Elizabeth Fry was born during the industrial
  revolution
• There was much unemployment out of cities and
  many people were very poor

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Crime

• Many people were driven to crime just to stay
  alive
• Less people were being put to death for theft so.

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the prisons filled up!
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Prisons

• Prison conditions were awful, cramped, dirty,
  smelly and violent.

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Prison Ships

• As a temporary solution to the overcrowding old
  ships were converted into floating prisons

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Australia

• Many convicts were shipped over to Australia, on
  one journey in 1790 of the 928 men and 78 women
  who set sail, 256 men and 11 women died on board.

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Elizabeth Fry

• Elizabeth was the fourth in a family of twelve
  children. She was born in Norwich
• Elizabeth was a Quaker. Quakers are pacifists
  who believe that religion is about repenting and
  striving to be a good person

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Elizabeth

• In 1813 Elizabeth visited a prison where, in a
  space of 190 yards overlooked by the men were 300
  women, many half naked with their children. Many
  women were criminals but others falsely accused.
  Many fought, drunk heavily and gambled

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Prison Schools

• Fry persuaded the women and the authorities to
  let her start a prison school, it was the first
  of many. Here is a picture of Newgate prison as
  it would have been then

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Punishment

• She was against the death penalty and she
  persuaded the authorities to only give the death
  penalty to those who commited violent crimes on
  others

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Reforming

• Fry helped reform many dangerous prisons, she saw
  to it that the women were working or being
  educated.
• She also made sure that the women were
  rehabilitated so that they were able to return to
  to outside world having learnt their lesson