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  2. Prisoner transport vehicle - Wikipedia

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    Prisoner transport vehicles may be operated by police services (see paddywagon), correctional services, field officers, court services, federal agencies such as the United States Marshals Service, or be contracted to private security companies. Prison buses were widely used in the late 1900s to transport prisoners, especially to state prisons ...

  3. Padded cell - Wikipedia

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    A no longer in use padded cell at the Old Melbourne Gaol in Melbourne, Australia.Photographed in 2012. A woman in a seclusion room, 1889. A padded cell or seclusion room is a controversial enclosure used in a psychiatric hospital or a special education setting in a private or public school, in which there are cushions lining the walls and sometimes has a cushioned floor as well.

  4. Prison cell - Wikipedia

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    Old prison cells near Mootwingee County, NSW. 1976 A contemporary prison cell in Germany. A prison cell (also known as a jail cell) is a small room in a prison or police station where a prisoner is held. Cells greatly vary by their furnishings, hygienic services, and cleanliness, both across countries and based on the level of punishment to ...

  5. Patrick O'Daniel Unit - Wikipedia

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    The prison is located in a 45-minute driving distance from Waco. [2] In addition to its other functions, O'Daniel Unit houses the state's female death row inmates. [3] [4] Death row offenders are housed separately from the rest of the prisoners in single-person cells measuring 60 square feet (5.6 m 2), with each cell having a window. They do ...

  6. United States Disciplinary Barracks - Wikipedia

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    Prison cell The new prison reflects current prison design of smaller low-rise separate buildings where prisoners can be more easily isolated from the general population. [ 4 ] In 2012 the facility received a 100% rating and the accolades from an assessment team from the American Correctional Association (ACA) (who have been auditing the sites ...

  7. Anti-suicide smock - Wikipedia

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    The same material is used for the anti-suicide blanket. Prior to the use of the Safety Smock, many jails and prisons stripped inmates naked and held them in a stripped down-padded cell with no furniture or protrusions of any kind. Some facilities opted to use paper gowns to provide modesty.

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  9. Rotary jail - Wikipedia

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    As per the original design, the jail could handle 16 prisoners and the third floor contained three cells for ill inmates to keep them separate from the remainder of the population. This jail had its rotary mechanism disabled around the late 1930s and the structure was condemned in 1967 and closed fully as a jail in 1973.