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Purgatory Correctional Facility has a typical occupancy of 400 to 500 inmates, with 150 employees and a full-time medical clinic. [4] [5] The estimated cost of the facility, completed in 1998, was $11,570,000. [6] It was designed by the architectural firm of Gillies, Stransky, Brems & Smith of Salt Lake City. [7]
Rising flood waters on Jan. 1, 2023, forced Sacramento County sheriff’s officials to evacuate more than 1,000 inmates from the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center near Elk Grove.
Newly released video shows inmate Robert Brooks being brutally beaten by prison guards, causing him to die the next day. Family photo
On Friday, Death Valley National Park measured 1.46 inches of rainfall at Furnace Creek, about three-fourths of an entire year's worth of rain for the park.
The facility used to be referred to as "gladiator school" by inmates and staff, because the DVI was widely known for the fights and homicides that took place within the prison walls. [citation needed] As recently as June 2010, an inmate murder in the facility has been recorded. [13] DVI also had a 110-inmate farm and operate a 1200-cow dairy.
Kentucky State Reformatory La Grange, Ky. Postcard view, c. 1940. Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR) is a medium-security prison for adult males. The prison is located in unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, [1] near La Grange, [2] and about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville. [3]
A year later, no repairs have begun. The ongoing roof leak problems date back to at least May 2020, when prison officials estimated the cost of at least some needed repairs at $1.6 million.
Nearby also is the Mountain View Unit, which houses all Texas female inmates on death row. Crain Unit's regular program houses around 1,500 women, and it is one of Texas's main prisons for women. [2] Female prison offenders of the TDCJ are released from this unit. [3] With a capacity of 2,013 inmates, Crain is the TDCJ's largest female prison. [4]