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  2. Spirit Lake Massacre - Wikipedia

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    It was the last Native American attack on settlers in Iowa, but the events increased tensions between the Sioux and settlers in the Minnesota Territory. Nearly 30 years after the events, in 1885 Abbie Gardner-Sharp published her memoir, History of the Spirit Lake Massacre and Captivity of Miss Abbie Gardner, [ 1 ] which was reprinted seven ...

  3. Red Summer - Wikipedia

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    The Red Summer was a period in mid-1919 during which white ... Appeals of the convictions of 6 of the defendants went to the U.S ... Map of the rioting during the ...

  4. Spring Hill, Iowa - Wikipedia

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    Spring Hill is a city in Warren County, Iowa, United States. The population was 68 at the time of the 2020 census . [ 3 ] It is part of the Des Moines – West Des Moines Metropolitan Statistical Area .

  5. More than 800 people have lost their lives in jail since July 13, 2015 but few details are publicly released. Huffington Post is compiling a database of every person who died until July 13, 2016 to shed light on how they passed.

  6. List of wrongful convictions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    People who were wrongfully accused are sometimes never released. By August 2024, a total of 3,582 exonerations were mentioned in the National Registry of Exonerations. The total time these exonerated people spent in prison adds up to 31,900 years. Detailed data from 1989 regarding every known exoneration in the United States is listed.

  7. Billy Mansfield - Wikipedia

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    On January 31, 1977, Billy pleaded guilty to a sexual misconduct charge against a babysitter in Grand Rapids, receiving six months' imprisonment and 36 months' probation. Not long after leaving jail he assaulted two teenagers in a rural area of the city, and was sent back to prison for violating the conditions of his parole.

  8. Iowa State Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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    The Iowa State Penitentiary (ISP) is an Iowa Department of Corrections maximum security prison for men located in the Lee County, Iowa, community of Fort Madison. This facility should not be confused with the Historical Iowa State Penitentiary , which was shut down in 2015 [ 1 ] after being open for 175 years. [ 2 ]

  9. History of United States prison systems - Wikipedia

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    A map of Philadelphia in 1796, at a time when a century of population growth and social change was beginning to transform crime and punishment in the city and elsewhere in the early United States. The first major prison reform movement in the United States came after the American Revolution, at the start of the