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Elmira Prison was originally a barracks for "Camp Rathbun" or "Camp Chemung", a key muster and training point for the Union Army during the American Civil War, between 1861 and 1864. The 30-acre (120,000 m 2 ) site was selected partially due to its proximity to the Erie Railroad and the Northern Central Railway , which crisscrossed in the midst ...
A supermax prison, Southport Correctional Facility, is located 2 miles (3.2 km) away from Elmira. [citation needed] The facility was founded in 1876 as the Elmira Reformatory and run by its controversial superintendent Zebulon Brockway. Acting with rehabilitative aims, Brockway instilled strict discipline along the lines of military training.
The Shohola train wreck occurred on July 15, 1864, during the American Civil War on the broad gauge Erie Railroad 1 1 ⁄ 2 miles (2.4 km) west of Shohola, Pennsylvania.A train carrying Confederate prisoners of war collided head-on with a coal train.
At the same event, Mayor J. Maxwell Beers credited the Society with having exerted a "wonderful influence in Elmira for many years ...” (Star Gazette Jan. 31, 1940) The Father Mathew Society ...
Built in 1876, the Elmira institution was designed to hold first-time felons, between the ages of sixteen and thirty, who were serving an indeterminate term of imprisonment set by their sentencing judge. [248] Elmira inmates had to earn their way out of the institution through good behavior, as assessed through an elaborate grading system. [248]
Convicted killer Eddie Marte is loaded into a van Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. Marte had just been sentenced in Chemung County Court to life in prison without parole for a 2021 Elmira torture/murder.
When he was in Detroit, he got the inspiration for his prison reforms from Moses and Amos Pilsbury, who also brought about prison reforms. He began his reforms in Detroit. However, he resigned in 1872 when his ideas were no longer accepted. [citation needed] Before the Elmira Reformatory was built, Brockway was already made the superintendent ...
One of four suspects in the shooting death of an Elmira man in early 2023 will spend 20 years in prison after accepting a plea agreement.. Zemyuah Graham, of Elmira, was originally charged by ...