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 ==History==
 === Jails and early prisons===
-In earlier times, prisons were not yet what we refer to under that name today. The contrast between a prison in 1770 and 1870 could scarcely have been greater. In 1770, he 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 had changed drastically a century later.
+In earlier times, prisons were not yet what we refer to under that name today. That is as true for medieval prisons of the 13th and 14th century (Geltner 2008) as for those in the earlier modern period. Geltner's Research led him to the following premises regarding premodern prisons:
+#Punitive incarceration’ was well known to ‘medieval law and jurists’, despite conflicting with contemporary attitudes.
+#The image of the medieval prison as ‘hellhole’, as viewed by both medieval and modern commentators, ‘is simply untenable’. the centrality of the prison’s urban location and its visibility and accessibility also caused medieval life outside the walls to permeate prison life. The prison’s ‘semi-inclusive nature’ and the absence of social seclusion had a positive effect by virtue of the strong daily ties with various types of connected outsiders. In sum, life in prison for most prisoners was ‘typically a more coercive version of life at large’.
+The contrast between a prison in 1770 and 1870 could scarcely have been greater. In 1770, he 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 had changed drastically a century later.