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Library books, Guantanamo prison, 2011. America has had prison libraries since 1790. [19] The first state prison library was established in 1802. [19] At the beginning of the 19th century prisons were usually operated by the clergy. [1] The purpose of the library was to increase religious devotion and modify behaviour.
Founded in 2020, Freedom Reads works to place millions of books into prisons by installing one Freedom Library at a time in every prison dormitory and housing unit in the United States based on ...
This is a list of lists of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories):
The first Books to Prisoners projects were founded in the early 1970s. These included Seattle's Books to Prisoners, Boston's Prison Book Program, and the Prison Library Project which was founded in Durham, North Carolina but relocated to Claremont, California in 1986.
Surviving records from the Wethersfield State Prison are maintained by the Connecticut State Library. [3] The Wethersfield prison was never a part of the Connecticut Department of Correction. Demolition of Wethersfield was completed by 1966, a year before the State Prison in Somers was transferred to the new Department of Correction. [1]
Lansing Correctional Facility (LCF) is a state prison operated by the Kansas Department of Corrections.LCF is located in Lansing, Kansas, in Leavenworth County.LCF, along with the Federal Bureau of Prison's United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, the United States Army Corrections Command's United States Disciplinary Barracks, and Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility in Fort ...
The State Correctional Institution – Pine Grove is a Pennsylvania state prison located in White Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. The prison contains 19 buildings including 8 housing units. Ground breaking for SCI Pine Grove occurred on May 11, 1998. The first inmates arrived on January 9, 2001.
The incarceration numbers for the states in the chart below are for sentenced and unsentenced inmates in adult facilities in local jails and state prisons. Numbers for federal prisons are in the Federal line. Asterisk (*) indicates "Incarceration in STATE" or "Crime in STATE" links. Correctional supervision numbers for Dec 31, 2018.