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A group of prisoners at Attica Correctional Facility alleged that various crimes were committed against them and their fellow inmates before, during, and after the 1971 prison uprising, and filed a lawsuit in federal district court to compel the state of New York to create an independent investigation of the events surrounded the Attica Prison ...
Attica Correctional Facility. / 42.8500°N 78.2717°W / 42.8500; -78.2717. Attica Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison campus in the Town of Attica, New York, [2] [3] operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. It was constructed in the 1930s in response to earlier riots within the ...
The Stanford prison experiment ( SPE) was a psychological experiment conducted in August 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that examined the effects of situational variables on participants' reactions and behaviors. Stanford University psychology professor Philip Zimbardo led the research team who administered the study.
Privately operated prisons in Florida are called "Correctional Facilities" (for example, Lake City Correctional Facility) while state operated facilities are called "Correctional Institutions" (i.e. Union Correctional Institution). Florida State Prison is the only facility in the state officially titled a "Prison". [citation needed]
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 44 prisons funded by the State of New York, and approximately 28,200 parolees at seven regional offices as of 2022.
Adult correctional facilities in Ontario are divided into four categories: correctional centres, jails, detention centres, and treatment centres. Some facilities are more than one type. Correctional centres house sentenced offenders who are serving a period of incarceration of up to two years, less a day.
For example, in 2006, researchers G. D. Glancy and E. L. Murray conducted a literature review in which they claimed that many frequently-cited studies have methodological concerns, including researcher bias, the use of "volunteer Non prisoners, naturalistic experiments, or case reports, case series, and anecdotes", and concluded "there is ...
Canadian law. This is a list of prisons and other secure correctional facilities in Canada, not including local jails. In Canada, all offenders who receive a sentence of 24 months or greater must serve their sentence in a federal correctional facility administered by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). Any offender who receives a sentence ...