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English: World map of prison population rates from World Prison Brief. See the date on the map. Rate is per 100,000 of national population. For the exact numbers click on the source link below and then go to the table tab. See also: List of countries by incarceration rate.
This is a list of U.S. military prisons and brigs operated by the US Department of Defense for prisoners and convicts from the United States military.
Andersonville Prison, surrounded by three rows of stockades. The word stockade also refers to a military prison in an army camp. In some cases, the term was applied to a crude prison camp or a slave camp. In these cases, the stockade keeps people inside, rather than out.
The location of Camp Security was thought to have been on land acquired by the local government nearly a decade ago. On Monday, an archaeological team working there located what they believe to be ...
Shawshank State Prison is a fictional New England state prison in the state of Maine. It serves as the primary location in the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King, as well as its subsequent film adaptation. The prison has also been mentioned in several other works by King.
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
At the southernmost tip of Argentina's Patagonia sits 'the prison of the end of the world.' The country banished prisoners here in the early 1900s to colonize the region.
Camp Lawton or the Millen Prison was a stockade which held Union soldiers who been taken as prisoners-of-war during the American Civil War. Located beside the Augusta and Savannah Railroad right-of-way five miles north of what was then Millen Junction (now Millen ) in Burke County (since 1905 in Jenkins County ), the new prison facility was ...