#small lockup

• Small lockup — A regional, diminutive, or popular form historically used to designate an improvised detention space, a small lock-up, a lockup cell, a rudimentary village jail, or the locked hearth of a watchtower. In a structural-ethnographic sense, areșca represented the restricted physical space used in rural communities or small market towns for the transient confinement of brawlers or tax evaders.