When convicted, there was only so much they could do to prevent a sentence of exemplary harshness and a bitter gaol experience.
After all, unsettled debts would damage a man's economic status among local traders and could potentially land him in gaol.
Styles regained consciousness only once the witch was back in gaol, but now seemed converted to a state of grace.
If barrio leaders were gaoled or excessively fined, they retaliated by blocking labour demands or disappearing.
They were desperately hungry, he wrote, being allowed less food than other prisoners in the same gaol.
Most of those in gaol had been debtors or those awaiting trial.
Just over half of the libel prosecutions of 1819-20 ended in some sort of sentence for the defendant, usually a few months in gaol.
Stealing, drinking or leading a dissolute life were ways to escape desperate situations, but these offences could lead to gaol terms.
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