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Imprisonment in ancient Rome was not a sentence under Roman law. Incarceration (publica custodia) in facilities such as the Tullianum was intended to be a temporary measure prior to trial or execution. [1] More extended periods of incarceration occurred but were not official policy, as condemnation to hard labor was preferred. [2]
Responding to mounting controversy over theology, astronomy and philosophy, the Roman Inquisition tried Galileo in 1633, found him "vehemently suspect of heresy", and sentenced him to house arrest where he remained until his death in 1642. [2]
Alexei Nikolaevich and his sister Tatiana Nikolaevna surrounded by guards during their house arrest in Tsarskoye Selo, April 1917. House arrest (also called home confinement, or electronic monitoring) is a legal measure where a person is required to remain at their residence under supervision, typically as an alternative to imprisonment.
Imprisonment was not a sentence under Roman statutory law, [2] though detention is mentioned in the Twelve Tables and throughout the Digest. [3] " Detention", however, includes debt bondage in the early Republic; [4] the wearing of chains (vincula publica), mainly for slaves; and during the Imperial era a sentence of hard labor at the mills, mines or quarries. [5]
Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. 449 BC), to the Corpus Juris Civilis (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I.
Illustration of the execution of Hadj Mohammed Mesfewi. Immurement (from the Latin im-, "in" and murus, "wall"; literally "walling in"), also called immuration or live entombment, is a form of imprisonment, usually until death, in which someone is placed within an enclosed space without exits. [1]
Low-level criminals could serve their sentences under house arrest as part of plans to free up prison space and ease overcrowing.. A government review, launched on Tuesday, will explore tougher ...
The Roman philosopher Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy in 524 AD (image from a 1385 manuscript) while imprisoned.. Prison literature is the literary genre of works written by an author in unwilling confinement, such as a prison, jail or house arrest. [1]