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  • Thumbnail for Louisiana State Penitentiary
    The Louisiana State Penitentiary (known as Angola, and nicknamed the "Alcatraz of the South", "The Angola Plantation" and "The Farm") is a maximum-security...
    136 KB (15,636 words) - 20:40, 17 October 2024
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    The Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is located in the Fairmount section of the city, and...
    44 KB (4,791 words) - 17:14, 9 September 2024
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    Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville or Huntsville Unit (HV), nicknamed "Walls Unit", is a Texas state prison located in Huntsville, Texas, United States...
    27 KB (2,577 words) - 01:10, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mississippi State Penitentiary
    Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman...
    136 KB (14,762 words) - 15:00, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Missouri State Penitentiary
    The Missouri State Penitentiary was a prison in Jefferson City, Missouri, that operated from 1836 to 2004. Part of the Missouri Department of Corrections...
    15 KB (1,999 words) - 01:49, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kentucky State Penitentiary
    The Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP), also known as the "Castle on the Cumberland", is a maximum security and supermax prison with capacity for 856 prisoners...
    14 KB (1,554 words) - 03:44, 10 November 2024
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    execution in the state between the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 and its repeal in 2009. Opened in 1885, the New Mexico Penitentiary had been authorized...
    9 KB (962 words) - 19:37, 5 November 2023
  • State Penitentiary (commonly abbreviated CSP) is a Level V maximum security prison in the U.S. state of Colorado. The facility is part of the state's...
    16 KB (1,614 words) - 13:24, 14 September 2024
  • The Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) is an Iowa Department of Corrections maximum security prison for men located in the Lee County, Iowa, community of Fort...
    21 KB (2,544 words) - 15:40, 6 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oregon State Penitentiary
    Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP), also known as Oregon State Prison, is a maximum security prison in the northwest United States in Salem, Oregon. Originally...
    37 KB (4,178 words) - 09:10, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anamosa State Penitentiary
    / 42.111°N 91.291°W / 42.111; -91.291 Anamosa State Penitentiary is a maximum security penitentiary prison located in the Jones County community of...
    8 KB (846 words) - 17:17, 15 June 2024
  • The "trusty system" (sometimes incorrectly called "trustee system") was a penitentiary system of discipline and security enforced in parts of the United...
    10 KB (1,048 words) - 04:39, 30 November 2022
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    patrolling. The Auburn system was a marked difference from the earlier Pennsylvania plan popularized at Eastern State Penitentiary in which cell blocks...
    15 KB (1,850 words) - 22:04, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
    Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary, last named Brushy Mountain Correctional Complex, (or, unofficially, Brushy) was a maximum-security prison in the community...
    9 KB (993 words) - 02:58, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clinton Correctional Facility
    Correctional Facility is a New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision maximum security state prison for men located in the Village...
    15 KB (1,854 words) - 23:16, 22 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wyoming State Penitentiary
    The Wyoming State Penitentiary is an American historic and current prison in Rawlins, Carbon County, Wyoming, which has operated from 1901. It moved within...
    7 KB (704 words) - 08:24, 19 October 2024
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    tornado in the tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2020. The first Tennessee State Penitentiary, located on what is now 15th Avenue between Church Street and Charlotte...
    14 KB (1,694 words) - 09:30, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Old Idaho State Penitentiary
    Boise Boise The Old Idaho Penitentiary State Historic Site was a functional prison from 1872 to 1973 in the western United States, east of Boise, Idaho...
    16 KB (1,587 words) - 18:00, 5 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Auburn system
    development, New York State adopted this system with the help of Elam Lynds, agent and keeper of Auburn Prison, for its third state prison, Sing Sing Prison...
    12 KB (1,644 words) - 18:54, 2 August 2024
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    confinement. The system remained largely intact at Eastern State Penitentiary into the early twentieth century. The Auburn or "Congregate" System became the...
    163 KB (21,178 words) - 10:26, 22 October 2024
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