Mike Winstanley's talks are always interesting.

About this next one Mike says - "Until 1869 people who could not, or would not, pay their debts could be detained in prison. Such people were not bankrupts as such; they were just insolvent. However, since they had committed no crime, they could not be "punished" in the same way as felons.

Some accounts, therefore, suggest that their life in the castle was very pleasant. Was this so? Just who were these debtors? And how did they manage to get out of debtors' prison.