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2. Berea, Texas - Wikipedia

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   The area in what is known as Berea today was founded sometime before 1900. There were two churches, several stores, a cemetery, and several scattered houses in the mid-1930s. There was only one church, a cemetery, and several houses in the mid-1960s. Its population was 41 in 2000. [2]

3. List of Texas state prisons - Wikipedia

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   Bowie County Unit [2] Central Unit (Closed 2011) Dickens County Unit [2] Don Hutto Unit [2] Jefferson County Unit [2] Gregg County Unit [2] Limestone County Unit [2] North Texas Intermediate Sanctions Facility (closed 2011) Retrieve Unit (later Wayne Scott Unit) - Main prison closed in 2020 [4] Western Regional Medical Unit [2]

4. Electronic monitoring in the United States - Wikipedia

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   GPS-based tracking system used for some individuals released from prison, jail or immigrant detention. According to a survey distributed by The Pew Charitable Trusts in December 2015, "the number of accused and convicted criminal offenders in the United States who are supervised with ankle monitors and other GPS-system electronic tracking devices rose nearly 140 percent over 10 years ...

5. Historic prison transformed into luxury apartments

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   For nearly 180 years, all of the residents were counting down the days until they could move out -- they were the inmates of the old Essex County Jail. The jail was in use from 1812-1992, making ...

6. One-room jail - Wikipedia

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   In some areas of the United States, a small, free-standing, one or two room jail building is known as a calaboose, meaning "dungeon" in Spanish.Calaboose were mainly used to incarcerate prisoners for minor crimes, such as drunkenness in public or fighting, or as a temporary holding cell for when a prisoner awaited transportation to a county jail.

7. List of jail and prison museums - Wikipedia

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   Mills County Old Jail Museum: Goldwaite: Texas: United States Jail Missouri State Penitentiary: Jefferson City: Missouri: United States Prison Montgomery County Jail and Sheriff's Residence: Crawfordsville: Indiana: United States Jail Rotary Jail: Moore County Old Jail Museum: Lynchburg: Tennessee: United States Jail Museu Penitenciário do ...

8. Detention (confinement) - Wikipedia

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   Being detained does not always result in being taken to a particular area (generally called a detention center), either for interrogation or as punishment for a crime (see prison). Persons can be detained if they are not allowed to leave a specific jurisdiction (a type of travel ban known as an 'exit ban') or if they are prevented from ...

9. Bastrop County Courthouse and Jail Complex - Wikipedia

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   The Bastrop County Courthouse is a historic courthouse built in 1883 at 803 Pine St, Bastrop, Texas. The Renaissance Revival style building was designed by J. N. Preston & Son. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1975. [2] Bastrop County was organized in 1837 and several houses served as early courthouses. A ...