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DULUTH — The Ten Commandments display painted inside the Itasca County jail is no more, painted over with two coats earlier this month. The list of religious principles stood two stories high ...
86001574 [2] Added to NRHP. July 10, 1986. The Minnesota Correction Facility – Stillwater (MCF-STW) is a close custody (level 4) state prison for men in Bayport, Minnesota, United States. Built 1910–1914, it houses 1,600 inmates in seven different living areas. Additionally, approximately 100 inmates are housed in a nearby minimum security ...
86001671 [2] Added to NRHP. July 17, 1986. Minnesota Correctional Facility – St. Cloud (MCF-St. Cloud) is a state prison in St. Cloud, Minnesota, United States. Established in 1889 as the Minnesota State Reformatory for Men, it is a level four, close-security institution with an inmate population of about 1,000 men. [3] MCF-St. Cloud serves ...
The county has a total area of 2,928 square miles (7,580 km 2), of which 2,668 square miles (6,910 km 2) is land and 260 square miles (670 km 2) (8.9%) is water. [8] It is the third-largest county in Minnesota by land area. The landscape in Itasca County varies greatly.
The Minnesota Territorial Prison, later the Minnesota State Prison, was a prison in Stillwater, Minnesota, United States, in operation from 1853 to 1914. Construction of the prison began in 1851, shortly after Minnesota became a territory. [ 2] The prison was replaced by the Minnesota Correctional Facility – Stillwater in nearby Bayport.
Capital punishment was formerly used by the state and former territory of Minnesota until its abolition in 1911. [ 1] Between 1854 and 1906, 66 people were executed by hanging in Minnesota. [ 2] Following the botched execution of William Williams in 1906, public opinion in the state turned against the death penalty. [ 3]
P. Benjamin B. Patterson. Rosanna Catherine Payne. Mike Peluso (ice hockey, born 1965)
Itasca County Historical Society. / 47.234167; -93.528889. The Itasca County Historical Society is a non-profit organization in Grand Rapids, Minnesota dedicated to preserving Itasca County, Minnesota's history. Their mission emphasizes understanding the present through knowledge of the past.