The history of prison an 18th century dungeon

18th Century Dungeon

The word prison comes from the French derivation comes from the Latin word prehensio, which means seizure. It is defined as a location in which to hold people who have been convicted of a crime by the reigning legal authority to spend their sentence. The primary goal of imprisonment in its infancy was to make sure that the accused would make his trial and appear before the judges, and to serve his due punishment. Their first uses were objectively morally dubious, as they typically housed those whom whatever tyrant who ruled at the time deemed in opposition to his direct authority; either that, or were thought by a benevolent government to serve the greater good of the people it governed, or so theiy thought. Read the rest of this entry »