Prison
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A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where people are imprisoned under the authority of the s
A 19th-century jail room at a Pennsylvania museum
A common punishment in Early Modern Europe was to be made a galley slave. The galley pictured here belonged to the Mediterranean fleet of Louis XIV, c. 1694.
In the modern era, many fortified buildings, such as abbeys and fortresses, were converted to use as prisons. Pictured is the cloister of Clairvaux Abbey, converted to a prison exercise yard after secularization.
Women in Plymouth, England (Black-eyed Sue and Sweet Poll) mourning their lovers who are soon to be transported to Botany Bay (1792)
Solitary confinement
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Solitary confinement is a form of imprisonment in which an incarcerated person lives in a single cell with little or no contact with other people. It is a punitive tool used within the prison system t
Solitary confinement cell in Jacques-Cartier Prison in Rennes, France
Subterranean cells at Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia
Solitary confinement cells at High Royds Hospital, Menston, West Yorkshire
Solitary confinement cell at Fort Christiansværn, United States Virgin Islands