The mystical "Bermuda Square of prisons"

We're close to the Maironis monument, which stands between the Town Hall and the modern Maironis Literature Museum and was once where the prisons were until the eighteenth century. Following the 1863 rebellion, nine jails were established in Kaunas. Simple infractions could result in a prison sentence. Look around; if you are wearing black and do not have a note indicating that you are in mourning, you may end up in one of the prisons. In the nineteenth century, rebels and fallen combatants against the Tsar were mourned, so when gendarmes spotted people dressed in black, they simply threw them in jail. It was also banned to go around the Old Town after dusk without a lantern or torch. Only gendarmes could do this, and regular people were imprisoned.