When they lay down, it was mostly upon the rough, bare stones of the prison floor covered here and there by a bit of loose, dirty straw or an occasional dirty straw mat. Inasmuch as some of the men, including the Prophet Joseph, were over six feet tall, this meant that when standing they were constantly in a stooped position. Surrounded by stone walls four feet thick, the floor-to-ceiling height in the dungeon was barely six feet. Liberty Jail, one of the more forbidding structures in that region, was considered escape proof, and it probably was. Until his martyrdom five and a half years later, there was no more burdensome time in Joseph’s life than this cruel, illegal, and unjustified incarceration. The Prophet, who bore the brunt of the persecution in that period, had been imprisoned in the ironically named Liberty Jail. One of the most trying times in the history of the Church, both in terms of its impact on the Church generally and in the life of the Prophet Joseph Smith personally, occurred during the winter of 1838–39.
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