thumb|Stjórnarráðshúsið Stjórnarráðshúsið (The Government House) is a stately home located on Lækjargata in Reykjavík, Iceland. The building houses the Prime Minister's Office. The building was originally built as the first penitentiary in Iceland, in the middle of the 18th century.
thumb|Stjórnarráðshúsið Stjórnarráðshúsið (The Government House) is a stately home located on Lækjargata in Reykjavík, Iceland. The building houses the Prime Minister's Office. The building was originally built as the first penitentiary in Iceland, in the middle of the 18th century.
== History == The first known source where speculation appears about building a penitentiary in Iceland is in a letter from Henrik Ocksen to the governor Joachim Henriksen Lafrenz, dated 1733. At the time, Katrín Ingjaldsdóttir had been sentenced to death in Iceland but pardoned by the king, who reduced her sentence to a lifetime of penal servitude. Such pardons were not uncommon. As there were no facilities in the country to hold people captive forever, prisoners were sent to prison in Denmark.
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