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Constructed in 1816 [5] as Auburn Prison, it was the second state prison in New York (after New York City's Newgate, 1797–1828), the site of the first execution by electric chair in 1890, and the namesake of the "Auburn system," a correctional system in which prisoners were housed in solitary confinement in large rectangular buildings, and ...
Attica Correctional Facility: Wyoming: Maximum 1931 2,253 Auburn Correctional Facility: Cayuga: Maximum 1818 1,821 Bare Hill Correctional Facility: Franklin: Medium 1988 1,722 Bedford Hills Correctional Facility: Westchester: Maximum (female) 1901 921 Cape Vincent Correctional Facility Jefferson: Medium 1956 882 Cayuga Correctional Facility ...
Murder of George Reed, a fellow Elmira Reformatory inmate [34] Edward Earl (a.k.a. Edward H. Poindexter) 19 February 1882 Murder of his wife William Sindram 21 April 1882 Murder of Catharine Craves [30] Augustus D. Leighton 19 May 1882 Murder of Mary Dean Michael E. "Mike" McGloin: 9 March 1883 Murder of Louis Hanier Grover Cleveland: Pasquale ...
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Lt. Troy Mitchell, with the help of other guards, is accused of pouring buckets of water over the mouths and noses of two shackled inmates at the Auburn Correctional Facility in separate incidents ...
State Prison at Sing Sing, New York, an 1855 engraving. Sing Sing was the fifth prison constructed by New York state authorities. In 1824, the New York Legislature gave Elam Lynds, warden of Auburn Prison and a former United States Army captain, the task of constructing a new, more modern prison.
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The Auburn correctional facility was the first prison to profit from prisoner labor. To ensure silence and to compel prisoners to work, agent Lynds, at first hired to oversee construction and command workers, used several methods of violence and coercion. [3] The prison had many sightseers in the 19th century.