What key events as described in the text facilitated the widespread use of gaols in England?

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Early versions of gaols (or jails) and prisons existed in English castle keeps and dungeons and Catholic monasteries. The use of these early forms of jails was reportedly widespread in England, even a thousand years ago. By the 9th century, Alfred the Great had legally mandated that imprisonment might be used to punish (Irwin, 1985). King Henry II in 1166 required that where no gaol existed in English counties, one should be built (Zupan, 1991) “[i]n walled towns and royal castles,” but only for the purpose of holding the accused for trial (Orland, 1975, pp. 15–16). In Elizabethan England, innkeepers made a profit using their facility as a gaol. The Catholic Church’s influence on the development of westernized corrections was intense in the Middle Ages (medieval Europe from the 5th to the 15th centuries) and might be felt even today. As a means of shoring up its power base vis-a?-vis feudal and medieval lords and kings, the Catholic Church maintained not only its own forms of prisons and jails, but also its own ecclesiastical courts (Garland, 1990). Though proscribed from drawing blood, except during the Inquisition, the Church often turned its charges over to secular authorities for physical punishment. But while in their care and in their monasteries for punishment, the Catholic Church required “solitude, reduced diet, and reflection, sometimes for extended periods of time” (Johnston, 2009, p. 14S).