{"id":969,"date":"2022-05-09T11:47:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T09:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palazzoprigionivenezia.com\/?p=969"},"modified":"2022-05-26T12:29:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T10:29:51","slug":"ceppi-palazzo-delle-prigioni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palazzoprigionivenezia.com\/en\/ceppi-palazzo-delle-prigioni\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocks: instrument of torture of the inquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Stocks<\/strong> are a punitive tool, used during the Middle Ages. Unlike the pillory<\/strong>, where the restraint boards are fixed to a pole and placed around the arms and neck of the condemned, forcing him to stand, stocks <\/strong>consist of a structure<\/strong> made specifically for the containment of the feet by locking the ankles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the prisons they were used to immobilize the prisoner to better whip the soles of the feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Torture in the Middle Ages<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Widely used in medieval times<\/strong>, the treatment was known in much older times. It is in fact already mentioned in the Bible<\/strong>, where it is reserved for Paul and Silas, disciples of Jesus: \u00abHe, having received this order, threw them into the innermost cell of the prison and clasped their feet in the shackles\u00bb (Acts 5:24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1989<\/strong> the city of Dermott<\/strong>, Arkansas<\/strong> (US) passed a curfew law punishable by up to thirty days in prison for the offender and up to two days of stocks<\/strong> for his parents. The initiative, however, was abandoned, because the city did not have any logs and had not even allocated funds to build them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Curiosities about the Stocks<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 2020<\/strong>, during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/strong>, the police in Chinu, Colombia, put to the stocks for a few hours residents who had violated the mandatory quarantine regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Palazzo delle Prigioni in Venice: the prison and the sentences of the condemned<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Palazzo delle Prigioni<\/strong> offers the opportunity to view the instruments of torture, prisons and period clothes still today, as well as learn about the stories and legends of a distant Venice. <\/strong>A piece of history witnessing the death and torture machines<\/strong> once used as instruments of justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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