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  2. History of United States prison systems - Wikipedia

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    When post-revolutionary prisons emerged in the United States, they were, in Hirsch's words, not a "fundamental departure" from the former American colonies' intellectual past. [5] Early American prisons systems like Massachusetts' Castle Island Penitentiary , built in 1780, essentially imitated the model of the 1500s English workhouse .

  3. List of United States federal prisons - Wikipedia

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    Most United States penitentiaries (USPs) are high-security facilities, which have highly secured perimeters with walls or reinforced fences, multiple and single-occupant cell housing, the highest staff-to-inmate ratio, and close control of inmate movement.

  4. List of jail and prison museums - Wikipedia

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    United States Jail Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary: Petros: Tennessee: United States State Prison Abashiri Prison Museum: Abashiri: Hokkaido: Japan Prison The only prison museum in Japan. [1] Alcatraz Island: San Francisco Bay Area: California: United States Prison Ancienne Prison de Trois-Rivières: Trois-Rivières: Quebec: Canada Prison ...

  5. History and mystery merge at former West Virginia ... - AOL

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    Famous former Moundsville prisoners include Charles Manson's "family" members and a member from Bonnie and Clyde's gang. Heather and Tim Gordon of Prescott, Ariz., said visiting the prison was a ...

  6. Eastern State Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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    In September 2008, the History Press released Eastern State Penitentiary: A History, the only comprehensive history book currently in print about Eastern State. It was written by Paul Kahan, a historian and former tour guide, with the assistance of the site's education director; the book has a foreword written by the penitentiary's former ...

  7. Yuma Territorial Prison - Wikipedia

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    The Yuma Territorial Prison is a former prison located in Yuma, Arizona, United States, that opened on July 1, 1876, and shut down on September 15, 1909.It is one of the Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites on the National Register of Historic Places in the Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area.

  8. ‘Reimagining’ Old Idaho Penitentiary puts historic gun ...

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    Tucked away in a 4,500-square-foot former warehouse in a far corner of the Old Idaho Penitentiary in Boise sits an exhibit representing one of the nation’s largest collections of historic ...

  9. List of inmates at the United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute

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    Transferred to the United States Penitentiary, Victorville, a high-security facility; serving a life sentence. Al-Qaeda operative; convicted in 1996 of terrorism conspiracy in connection with planning Project Bojinka , a foiled plot conceived by senior Al-Qaeda member Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to bomb twelve planes over the Pacific Ocean in a 48 ...