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USP Atlanta, also a former high-security facility, is presently a low-security facility with the primary purpose of holding inmates until they are transferred to other institutions. In 2024, all former USP facilities were renamed to FCI facilities to more accurately reflect their security level.
Maximum security prisons and supermax prisons are grades of high security level used by prison systems in various countries, which pose a higher level of security to prevent prisoners from escaping and/or doing harm to other inmates or security guards. For the United States, see Incarceration in the United States § Security levels
A super-maximum security (supermax) or administrative maximum (ADX) prison is a "control-unit" prison, or a unit within prisons, which represents the most secure level of custody in the prison systems of certain countries.
Church of St. Dismas, the Good Thief, a church built by inmates, is located within the walls. The prison is sometimes referred to as New York's Little Siberia, due to the cold winters in Dannemora and the isolation of the upstate area. It is the largest maximum-security prison and the third-oldest prison in New York.
Rutledge State Prison Columbus: Medium 640 Adult males Smith State Prison: Glennville: Close 1570 Adult males S.M.U. Special Management Unit at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification State Prison [1] Jackson: Special management unit 192 Adult males Telfair State Prison: Helena: Close 1410 Adult males Valdosta State Prison & Annex: Valdosta ...
Security Boston Pre-Release Center: Roslindale (Boston) Minimum/Pre-Release Bridgewater State Hospital: Bridgewater: Medium Lemuel Shattuck Hospital Correctional Unit: Boston: Medium Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center at Plymouth: Plymouth: Minimum Massachusetts Correctional Institution - Framingham: Framingham: Medium
An image of Idaho Maximum Security Institution’s C Block, where civil commitment patients are held. In May, at least 90 men housed in the prison participated in a hunger strike.
Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP), also known as Oregon State Prison, is a maximum security prison in the northwest United States in Salem, Oregon.Originally opened in Portland 173 years ago in 1851, it relocated to Salem fifteen years later.