[Cz-L] City jail

Penitentiary.
  The Rumanians called it Penitentiar :a place where you repent.
    The Austrians :Gefaengnis.
      We called the place : Die Tfisse - in Yiddish . From the Hebrew
"litfoss " -to catch.
       The same root as in German : Gefaengnis - fangen - to catch.
      Very logic assumption : In order to put somebody in ,you had to catch
him first.
       The Russians call the place Tyurma - from Turm -Tower.
        In old times most prisons were positioned in or called towers -
take the Tower of London.

             I never saw the place from the inside -was too little .
           Now they planted a row of trees in the front ,to obstruct the
awe-inspiring appearance.
            Hardy
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