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  2. History of diabetes - Wikipedia

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    Today, the term "diabetes" most commonly refers to diabetes mellitus. Diabetes mellitus is itself an umbrella term for a number of different diseases involving problems processing sugars that have been consumed (glucose metabolism). Historically, this is the "diabetes" which has been associated with sugary urine .

  3. Indiana State Prison - Wikipedia

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    Later, State Prison South became the Indiana Reformatory and State Prison North became known as Indiana State Prison. [3] In 1860, 100 acres (0.40 km 2) in Michigan City were purchased for $4,500. The first warden, Charles Seely, was the superintendent in charge of construction and was the general handyman. [3]

  4. History of United States prison systems - Wikipedia

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    This led to uprisings of state prisons across the eastern border states of America. Newgate State Prison in Greenwich Village was built in 1796, New Jersey added its prison facility in 1797, Virginia and Kentucky in 1800, and Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maryland followed soon after. Americans were in favour of reform in the early 1800s.

  5. Indiana Department of Correction - Wikipedia

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    There were 6,963 adult males on parole in Indiana ( 6,649 Indiana parolees, 239 In-State, and 75 Out-State other jurisdiction parolees) on January 01, 2025. There were 745 adult females on parole in Indiana ( 708 Indiana parolees, 32 In-State, and 5 Out-State other jurisdiction parolees) on January 01, 2025.

  6. Westville Correctional Facility - Wikipedia

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    The Westville Correctional Facility, located in Westville, Indiana, is a state-operated prison for adult males. The facility contains sections of three levels of security. [1] The average daily population in September 2006 was approximately 3,100. [2]

  7. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    In a news release announcing the groundbreaking for the prisons, Slattery called the new facilities “the future of American corrections.” Among the new Correctional Services Corp. prisons was the Pahokee Youth Development Center, which sat in the middle of sugarcane fields in a rural, swampy part of the state northwest of Miami.

  8. Prison newspaper - Wikipedia

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    The Angolite, the prison newspaper of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, has won numerous journalism awards including the George Polk Award and a nomination for a National Magazine Award. [10] The San Quentin News from San Quentin State Prison is the subject of a 2020 book by journalism professor William J. Drummond. [14]

  9. 1794 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Doyle Mission to Massac, 1794. Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 1980), pp. 2–16. Roland M. Baumann. Philadelphia's Manufacturers and the Excise Taxes of 1794: The Forging of the Jeffersonian Coalition. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 106, No. 1 (January 1982), pp. 3–39.