Comment by baud147258
8 years ago
> It wasn't until modern times that prison became a place for common criminals, in those days only political offenders would be put away
I don't think it was universally true, for example, when the Bastille prison in Paris was taken at the start of the French Revolution, it held only common criminals, with the political prisoners having been moved before the start of the unrest.
Yeah, the French did a lot of things differently, the French national consciousness was matched only by its material wealth, so they could afford such frivolities.
> material wealth
You know that one of the cause of the Revolution was a Financial crisis, right?
Sure, probably the main cause. You can't have a financial crisis without material wealth. If you're going to hang yourself, the first thing you need is a rope.