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Originally Posted by dreams
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It was very impressive. It was build to replace the old fashioned jails where people were put together in one big room. It was planned that there would only be one prisoner per cell. Mainly because of the potatoe famine put a stop to those plans. They have documents which record what the crimes were. There were several boys imprisoned for stealing 4 loaves of bread. In a way this was smart because being in jail meant a roof over their head (despite the bad conditions and overcrowding) and three meals a day.
I'm now trying to calm down after someone found it funny to loudly knock on my window, just when there was a tense moment in the film I was watching.