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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 ...
A shiv, also chiv, schiv, shivvie, or shank, [1] [2] is a handcrafted bladed weapon resembling a knife that is commonly associated with prison inmates. Since weapons are prohibited in prisons, the intended mode of concealment is central to a shiv's construction.
Portsmouth Naval Prison on Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Seavey Island, Maine (closed 1974) United States Disciplinary Barracks, Atlantic Branch at Castle Williams on Governors Island, New York City (closed 1965) United States Disciplinary Barracks, Central Branch at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri
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.
Facility Location Year opened Year closed Major facility Population gender Capacity Custody level(s) Ahtanum View Corrections Center (AVCC) : Yakima: 1997
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William Williams, 24, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) McDowell, pleaded guilty to possession of a weapon by an inmate at a federal prison, according to a statement from the ...
The Presidio mutiny was a sit-down protest carried out by 27 prisoners at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco, California on October 14, 1968. It was one of the earliest instances of significant internal military resistance to the Vietnam War.