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This is a list of state prisons in New York. The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision is the department of the New York State government that maintains the state prisons and parole system. [1] There are 42 prisons funded by the State of New York, and approximately 28,200 parolees at seven regional offices as of ...
The Mount Prison was designed as a Category C Training prison built on the site of the former Bovingdon RAF station. However, when the establishment opened in 1987, it was used as a Young Offenders Institution for males aged 18 to 21. Today the prison is used to hold Category C adult male prisoners.
The original route from Hemel Hempstead to St Albans followed the course of what is now the A4147, then from St Albans to Hatfield on the course of what are now the A1057 and B6426. The villages of Cole Green , Birch Green , and Staines Green were bypassed in the 1990s by a new dual carriageway that linked into the 1970s Hertingfordbury bypass.
Hemel Hempstead (/ ˌ h ɛ m əl ˈ h ɛ m p s t ɪ d /) is a town in the Dacorum district in Hertfordshire, England.It is located 24 miles (39 km) north-west of London; nearby towns include Watford, St Albans and Berkhamsted.
Hempstead may have been named after Hemel Hempstead in the English county of Hertfordshire, where village founder John Carman was born. [7] Another theory regarding the origin of the village's name is that it is derived from the town of Heemstede in the Netherlands, as this was an area from which many Dutch settlers of New Netherland originated.
Roughdown Common is a 3.6-hectare (8.9-acre) biological Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire. The planning authority is Dacorum Borough Council. [1] [2] The site is Common land, [3] and it is owned by the Box Moor Trust having been officially bought by the trust in April 1886 from the Dean and Chapter of St ...
From 1912, Hemel Hempstead station was known as Boxmoor and Hemel Hempstead. The area was absorbed into the expanded Hemel Hempstead new town during the 1950s and 1960s, but retains a local character. In 1963, the station was renamed again, from Hemel Hempstead and Boxmoor to Hemel Hempstead, its current name.
The Town of Hempstead is the largest of the three towns in Nassau County (alongside North Hempstead and Oyster Bay) on Long Island, in New York, United States. The town's combined population was 793,409 at the 2020 census , making it the most populated town in the United States, containing the majority of the population of Nassau County.