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 ==History==
-=== Jails ===
+=== Jails and early prisons===
+In earlier times, "prisons were not yet what we refer to under that name today. As Randall McGowen points out in his account of the English prison, "the contrast between a prison in 1780 and one in 1865 could scarcely have been greater" (p. 79). In the 18th century, the debtors and remand prisoners in the local jails often mingled together with petty offenders who were sent to the workhouse. In the prisons there was little sign of authority, it was noisy and smelly, and some prisoners were gambling while others were drinking beer sold by the jailors. The inmates were also relatively free to mingle with friends and family. All this was to change at the end of the eighteenth century" (Nikolaus Wachsmann)
 [[Datei:Cornelis De Wael - To Visit the Imprisoned - Google Art Project.jpg|500px|left| A Prison in Italy around 1640]]