Identify a true statement about the prisons of eighteenth-century England.

A. They were the primary instruments of punishments.
B. They were more likely than their American counterparts to use corporal correction.
C. They were mainly used to hold debtors.
D. They held pretrial detainees who were guilty of committing misdemeanors.


Answer: C

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