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  2. Prison - Wikipedia

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    A 19th-century jail cell room at a Pennsylvania museum. A prison, [a] also known as a jail, [b] gaol, [c] penitentiary, detention center, [d] correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer is a facility where people are imprisoned against their will and denied their liberty under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes.

  3. List of prisons in India - Wikipedia

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    Central Jail, Ayodhya. Central Jail, Etawah. Central Jail, Varanasi. Fatehgarh Jail, Fatehgarh. Aawadha Central Jail, Faizabad. Bareilly Central Jail, Bareilly. Agra Jail, Agra. Sadar Jail, Deoria. Uttar Pradesh has the largest prison department in India and one of the largest around the world consisting of 73 total prisons (As of 2021 ).

  4. Prisons in India - Wikipedia

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    Prisons, and their administration, is a state subject covered by item 4 under the State List in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India.The management and administration of prisons falls exclusively in the domain of the State governments, and is governed by the Prisons Act, 1894 and the Prison manuals of the respective state governments.

  5. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

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    Website. www .cdcr .ca .gov. The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation ( CDCR) is the penal law enforcement agency of the government of California responsible for the operation of the California state prison and parole systems. Its headquarters are in Sacramento .

  6. PDF - Wikipedia

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    Yes. Website. iso .org /standard /75839 .html. Portable Document Format ( PDF ), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

  7. Indiana Department of Correction - Wikipedia

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    The Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) operates state prisons in Indiana.It has its headquarters in Indianapolis. [1] As of 2019, the Indiana Department of Correction housed 27,140 adult Inmates, 388 juvenile Inmates, employed 5,937 State Employed Staff, and 1,718 Contracted Staff.

  8. Washington State Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    The Washington State Department of Corrections ( WADOC) is a department of the government of the State of Washington. WADOC is responsible for administering adult corrections programs operated by the state. This includes state correctional institutions and programs for people supervised in the community. [4]

  9. North Carolina Department of Correction - Wikipedia

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    North Carolina Department of Correction. 31,400. [2] The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (NCDAC) is the agency responsible for corrections in the U.S. state of North Carolina. NCDAC was formed as a cabinet level agency at the start of 2023, after corrections had been part of the North Carolina Department of Public Safety since 2012.