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As well as the overall administration of the workhouse, masters were required to discipline the paupers as necessary and to visit each ward twice daily, at 11 am and 9 pm. Female inmates and children under seven were the responsibility of the matron, as was the general housekeeping. [83]
Built in 1966, the prison gained its nickname "The Workhouse" from an 1840s city ordinance that allowed forced labor as a punishment for criminals sentenced in law court who couldn't pay their fines. [3] [4] [5] The Workhouse became infamous for its poor living conditions, prisoner abuse, and penal labor.
The jail came under fire in March 2009 when allegations came forward that a sheriff's deputy enlisted an inmate to touch a sandwich with his genitalia, then fed the sandwich to a fellow inmate. The inmate consuming the sandwich was then shown a cell phone picture of the first inmate's genitalia touching the sandwich. [ 5 ]
Inmate name Year sentenced Date of execution Age Register number Details Under President Brandon Bernard: 2000 December 10, 2020: 40 91908-080 Convicted at the age of 18 for his involvement in a carjacking and the deaths of a couple visiting Texas. Co-defendant Christopher Vialva was also executed for the crime. Donald Trump: Alfred Bourgeois: 2004
Youth Services International confronted a potentially expensive situation. It was early 2004, only three months into the private prison company’s $9.5 million contract to run Thompson Academy, a juvenile prison in Florida, and already the facility had become a scene of documented violence and neglect.
One night in July 2012, a juvenile inmate at Thompson Academy was lining up with other boys after taking a shower when he realized that the boxer shorts he had been issued were too big. According to a police report and an interview with the inmate’s mother, the boy asked a female staff member if he could have another pair. She said no.
The second youngest person to be executed, and the youngest to have a confirmed birth date (of October 21, 1929), was George Stinney, who was electrocuted in South Carolina at the age of 14 on June 16, 1944, after the bodies of two children (ages 7 and 11) were found close to his home. George Stinney maintained his innocence throughout his ...
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