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  2. Detainer - Wikipedia

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    Detainer (from detain, Latin detinere); originally in British law, the act of keeping a person against his will, or the wrongful keeping of a person's goods, or other real or personal property. A writ of detainer was a form for the beginning of a personal action against a person already lodged within the walls of a prison ; it was superseded by ...

  3. Detention (imprisonment) - Wikipedia

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    Prisons are designed in several ways and there are 5 levels of regimes (which depends on the crime committed). Nieuw Vosseveld is a long stay prison with the heaviest regime for the most dangerous criminals. The prison is meant for criminals that have been sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment and longer.

  4. History of United States prison systems - Wikipedia

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    It was the population boom in the eastern states that led to the reformation of the prison system in the U.S. [6] According to the Oxford History of the Prison, in order to function prisons "keep prisoners in custody, maintain order, control discipline and a safe environment, provide decent conditions for prisoners and meet their needs ...

  5. Offences Against the Person Act 1861 - Wikipedia

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    The Offences against the Person Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.It consolidated provisions related to offences against the person (an expression which, in particular, includes offences of violence) from a number of earlier statutes into a single Act.

  6. Virginia Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    The facility, which received its first prisoners in 1800 and was completed (with using prison labor) in 1804, (earlier than the current oldest state prison in America, the still standing Eastern State Penitentiary (1829-1971) in Philadelphia and seven years before the neighboring Maryland Penitentiary (now Metropolitan Transitional Center and ...

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  8. Imprisonment - Wikipedia

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    Antti Rannanjärvi and Antti Isotalo, the famous Finnish "puukkojunkkaris", imprisoned in 1869. Imprisonment or incarceration is the restraint of a person's liberty for any cause whatsoever, whether by authority of the government, or by a person acting without such authority.

  9. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    In a news release announcing the groundbreaking for the prisons, Slattery called the new facilities “the future of American corrections.” Among the new Correctional Services Corp. prisons was the Pahokee Youth Development Center, which sat in the middle of sugarcane fields in a rural, swampy part of the state northwest of Miami.