... jobs build the foundation of society. When we are made to think of architectural monuments, do we ever think of prisons? Imprisonment used as a punishment is a somewhat new concept, and incarceration as reformation is even newer. Throughout history, "jails" as we know them have been used simply to hold the convicted until their time of punishment (hanging, flogging, dismemberment, etc.). The Catholic Church was actually the first to offer imprisonment as we have come to know it. In Rome, during the reign of Constantine, churches and monasteries began a custom of granting asylum to convicted criminals as long as they agreed to resolve their crimes through suffering. The most frequently used form of resolution by the church was confinement. The guilty were sent to a remote monastic Webb 2 facility or a hidden room in the church cellar and locked there (sometimes in shackles) until the head priest deemed necessary. ...

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