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I visited an old jail in The Hague, the Gevangenpoort, and I was amazed at the range of torture tools to extract confessions. When did we realize that confessions under torture are not very trustworthy, and when/how/why did we move from torture to detention as the standard form of punishment?

by /u/Thoughtthroughthough in /r/AskHistorians

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