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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. Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    The original plan consisted of three tiers of cells, each tier with 14 8-foot (2.4 m) square cells, heated by fireplaces at either end of the cellblock. The prison was enclosed by a wooden fence, 12 feet (3.7 m) high. [2] The warden's residence was built in 1875 by convicts.

  4. Eastern State Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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    At its completion, the building was the largest and most expensive public structure ever erected in the United States, [9] and quickly became a model for more than 300 prisons worldwide. The prison is currently a U.S. National Historic Landmark, [5] which is open to the public as a museum for tours daily.

  5. Metropolitan Transition Center - Wikipedia

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    The Maryland Metropolitan Transition Center (MTC), formerly known as the historic "Maryland Penitentiary", is a maximum pre-trial security Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services prison located in Baltimore facing Greenmount Avenue between Forrest Street and East Madison Street.

  6. Kentucky State Penitentiary in Frankfort - Wikipedia

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    This prison was known as the Kentucky Penitentiary until the 1910 Prison Reform bill [4] passed March 1, 1910: This bill included that one institution be penal and the other reform; the changing of its mode of Capital Punishment from the gallows to the use of an electric chair, and included that the electric chair be kept in a "penitentiary ...

  7. Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to ...

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    ANGOLA, La. (AP) — A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins here, at an unlikely source – a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison.

  8. Prison register - Wikipedia

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    For repeat offenders and escapees a description was added, and with juveniles, who were also housed in adult prisons, the names and address of their parents were included in the records. A 19th century prison register is on display in the lobby of the Hamilton County Justice Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the United States. [1]

  9. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Federal prison officials were close to canceling the contract in 1992, according to media accounts at the time, but they said conditions at the facility started to improve after frequent inspections. In a federal lawsuit, one LeMarquis employee, Richard Moore, alleged that he had been severely beaten by another employee – at the direction of ...