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  2. List of United States federal prisons - Wikipedia

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    Camp Columbia Federal Prison: Washington 1947 Chillicothe Federal Reformatory: Ohio c. 1950s: Catalina Federal Honor Camp: Arizona 1951 United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island: California 1963 United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island: Washington 1982 Federal Prison Camp, Eglin: Florida 2006 Federal Prison Camp, Nellis: Nevada 2005 Federal ...

  3. List of U.S. states and territories by incarceration and ...

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    From the source report: "This graph shows the number of people in state prisons, local jails, federal prisons, and other systems of confinement from each U.S. state and territory per 100,000 people in that state or territory and the incarceration rate per 100,000 in all countries with a total population of at least 500,000." [26]

  4. ADX Florence - Wikipedia

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    The stabbings took place only a few hours apart and were blamed on inadequate prison design. [6] Federal Bureau of Prisons director Norman Carlson proposed a new facility to isolate the most dangerous, uncontrollable inmates for security and safety. Under his leadership, USP Marion was operated in permanent lockdown for 23 years, serving as a ...

  5. Federal courts have allowed prisons and private medical ... - AOL

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    In a 2009 study of nearly 7,000 men incarcerated in 12 state prisons, 19% reported being physically assaulted by a fellow prisoner over a six-month period; 21% reported being assaulted by prison ...

  6. United States Penitentiary, Marion - Wikipedia

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    The United States Penitentiary, Marion (USP Marion) is a large medium-security United States federal prison for male and female inmates in Southern Precinct, [1] unincorporated Williamson County, Illinois. [2] [3] It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.

  7. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Federal prison officials were close to canceling the contract in 1992, according to media accounts at the time, but they said conditions at the facility started to improve after frequent inspections. In a federal lawsuit, one LeMarquis employee, Richard Moore, alleged that he had been severely beaten by another employee – at the direction of ...

  8. Allan B. Polunsky Unit - Wikipedia

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    In May 2013 Mother Jones magazine ranked Polunsky as one of the ten worst prisons in the US, based on Congressional testimony from former inmate Anthony Charles Graves (TDCJ Death Row#999127, [25] released due to overturning of conviction on September 7, 2006 [26]) and research conducted by the magazine during a three-year period. [27] [28]

  9. Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn - Wikipedia

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    MDC Brooklyn occupies land that was originally part of Bush Terminal (now Industry City), a historic intermodal shipping, warehousing, and manufacturing complex. [3] The Federal Bureau of Prisons initially proposed converting two buildings at Industry City into a federal jail in 1988, due to overcrowding at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York. [4]