What does that sentence mean. The five hundred years thing.
I meant that not since the end of the dark ages (and the start of the renaissance) should the notion of thrusting a young girl into a cell have happened across the officer's minds. I only don't go back further because before then most cells came in dungeon form, and anyone who has seen a real dungeon cell realizes that would be impossible to put three people into one, never mind 21.
I am saying that no police officer since the end of the dark ages should have ever considered doing what they did to that girl.