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Hand-colored engraving showing prisoners walking on a large wooden treadmill under a roof at Brixton prison, London, in 1827, with a guard overseeing them and others seated nearby.

Illustration showing British prison life in 1907: men walking on a treadmill for hard labor at the top, and at the bottom, a prisoner tied to a post being whipped with a cat-o-nine-tails while a guard watches.

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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Added photograph.	Amy Tikkanen	Aug 13, 2010
	New article added.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Aug 09, 2007