HELP !!! - ancient prisons

[Paradox]

There was this prison where they tied you to a rope and left you hanging with a chair filled with spikes would be right beneath you. They once did this to a famous Atheist I think.

I don't really understand what this topic's asking, but what do you mean by "type of prisons"?

[mrdun]

Im Roman times there was the well which Jagurtha and crew were thrown down, The tarpein Rock and the prison, name escapes me, I want to say latinda but i know its not that. People could just walk out of that though unless tied.

[macsen rufus]

I'm sure imprisonment was very rare compared to the alternatives mentioned above: slavery/hard-labour, exile and execution by any one of a series of extremely grisly methods

[CrazyGuy]

In Britain for a long time you were charged for you own imprisonment. Effectively creating a 'two-tier' system where the rich led a pretty cushy life as they could pay 'luxuries'. I don't know for sure, but i imagine a similar system existed in ancient times. As usual 'one rule for them, one for us...'

[ShadesWolf]

Thanks guys, for your help.

I will stick him in a hole in the ground as a holding cell, b4 the send him to a galley.