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  2. Cook County Jail - Wikipedia

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    The city Bridewell moved to the site of the present jail complex at 29th and California in 1871 (at the time of the Great Chicago Fire) but the county's serious alleged offenders did not generally move there until the 1920s. When the two facilities began to be located together, they first gained the reputation as the 'largest concentration of ...

  3. Rio Grande Detention Center - Wikipedia

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    Rio Grande Detention Center is a privately owned prison for men located in Laredo, Webb County, Texas, operated by GEO Group under contract with the U.S. government Office of the Federal Detention Trustee. The prison was originally built in 2007, opened in 2008, and has an official capacity of 1900 federal detainees awaiting trial.

  4. List of immigrant detention sites in the United States

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    Chicago, Illinois: Prison - juvenile detention Secure HHS/ ORR 159 (2007) Minors only Karnes Correctional Center: In use (2009) Karnes City, Texas: Prison Secure DHS/ ICE: The GEO Group, Inc. 679 (2009) 124 (2007) Karnes County Residential Center: In use (2014) Karnes City, Texas: Other - shelter The GEO Group, Inc. 830 (2018) [10] Family ...

  5. Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Leader of the Gangster Disciples in Chicago; sentenced to life in state prison in 1973 for murder; convicted in 1997 of drug conspiracy, extortion, money laundering, and running a continuing criminal enterprise for leading the gang from state prison. [13] [14] Ovidio Guzmán López: 72884-748: Currently awaiting trial. Alleged leader of the ...

  6. Illinois Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC) is the code department [1] [2] of the Illinois state government that operates the adult state prison system. The IDOC is led by a director appointed by the Governor of Illinois , [ 3 ] and its headquarters are in Springfield .

  7. Immigration detention in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Immigrants apprehended by Rio Grande Valley CBP Agents, 2016. Often, undocumented aliens or individuals lacking legal permission to enter, or remain, in the United States, when apprehended at the U.S. border are detained and placed in removal proceedings in front of an immigration judge. These individuals may include refugees seeking asylum.

  8. List of jail and prison museums - Wikipedia

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    Prison Montgomery County Jail and Sheriff's Residence: Crawfordsville: Indiana: United States Jail Rotary Jail: Moore County Old Jail Museum: Lynchburg: Tennessee: United States Jail Museu Penitenciário do Estado do Rio de Janeiro : Rio de Janeiro: Rio de Janeiro: Brazil Prison Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec: Quebec City: Quebec ...

  9. Homan Square facility - Wikipedia

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    In February 2015, Ackerman published a series of articles in The Guardian describing the Homan Square facility as "an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site."