Jails and Prisons

From the birth of modern civilization in 3rd millennia BC, almost every major ancient civilization used concept of prisons as a mean to detain and remove personal freedoms of incarcerated people, according to prisonhistory.net Most prisons, jails and dungeons were hellish, but some more recent jails exteriors were designed to be aesthetically pleasing, matching the courthhouse architecture where the justice was meted out.