Simplify the following text for a Grade 5 native English-speaking person.
Original: People of high rank were sometimes held there too , and so the prison ( which could only hold a little over 50 people ) was far less sordid a place than most of the Parisian prisons .
Simplified: People of high rank were sometimes held there too . The prison , which could only hold about 50 prisoners , was not as bad most of the prisons in Paris .