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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 which the prisoner being held has been sentenced.
Charles Dickens wrote about the jail in American Notes: "Such indecent and disgusting dungeons as these cells, would bring disgrace upon the most despotic empire in the world!" [6] The Tombs' formal title was The New York Halls of Justice and House of Detention, as it housed the city's courts, police, and detention facilities.
The 9-South wing is a designated SHU. It houses inmates that violated prison rules; new arrivals that have not been medically cleared for General Population yet; and inmates in Protective Custody (PC). [12] Both inmates in a cell are cuffed at the back through a food slot every time the cell door is to be opened.
Sharing photos from inside 201 Poplar, Ben Crump said conditions are "deplorable" and show a widespread "pattern of neglect" in the Shelby County Jail.
A new Netflix documentary series shows what happened when inmates were free to roam the cellblock with no guards in sight.
The Cellular Jail, also known as 'Kālā Pānī' (transl. 'Black Water'), was a British colonial prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The prison was used by the colonial government of India for the purpose of exiling criminals and political prisoners .
Jul. 20—The Carlton County Board of Commissioners and other officials were able to take an inside look at some sample jail cells during a planning meeting for the county's justice center project ...
Parts of the prison were designed according to the panopticon concept proposed by the British philosopher and prison reformer, Jeremy Bentham. Stateville's "F-House" cellhouse, commonly known as a "roundhouse", has a panopticon layout which features an armed tower in the center of an open area surrounded by several tiers of cells.