Studying the penalty and prison of women in Iran from the Achaemenid to Sasanian

By studying the religious and historical texts of the pre-Islamic Iran, the circumstances of penalizing criminal women will be rather clear, but in sources, a little information is found about imprisoning criminal women. The paper is going to answer the question that whether prison was known as a penalty for women in the pre-Islamic Iran and what was the foundation and base of women penalty? The research findings show that women gender played a decisive role in the circumstances of their penalty, the imprisonment of women was only done by the dignitaries of the families and prison as a penalty for woman was not common in the pre- Islamic Iran.