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  2. Prisons in India - Wikipedia

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    Prisons, and their administration, is a state subject covered by item 4 under the State List in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India.The management and administration of prisons falls exclusively in the domain of the State governments, and is governed by the Prisons Act, 1894 and the Prison manuals of the respective state governments.

  3. Prison - Wikipedia

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    A 19th-century jail cell room at a Pennsylvania museum. A prison, [a] also known as a jail, [b] gaol, [c] penitentiary, detention center, [d] correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer is a facility where people are imprisoned against their will and denied their liberty under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes.

  4. Corrective rape - Wikipedia

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    Corrective rape, also called curative rape[ 1] or homophobic rape, [ 2][ 3][ 4] is a hate crime in which somebody is raped because of their perceived sexual orientation. The common intended consequence of the rape, as claimed by the perpetrator, is to turn the person heterosexual. [ 5][ 6][ 7] The term was coined in South Africa after well ...

  5. Oregon Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    The Oregon Department of Corrections is the agency of the U.S. state of Oregon charged with managing a system of 12 state prisons since its creation by the state legislature in 1987. In addition to having custody of offenders sentenced to prison for more than 12 months, the agency provides program evaluation, oversight and funding for the ...

  6. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania DOC Website. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections ( PADOC) is the Pennsylvania state agency that is responsible for the confinement, care, and rehabilitation of approximately 37,000 inmates at state correctional facilities funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The agency is headquartered in Hampden Township, Cumberland ...

  7. List of agencies of the government of India - Wikipedia

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    Rashtriya Rifles. National Crime Records Bureau. Bureau of Police Research and Development. Department of Criminal Intelligence. National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Sciences. North Eastern Council. North Eastern Police Academy. Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, Census of India.

  8. PDF - Wikipedia

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    The PDF 1.4 specification allowed form submissions in XML format, but this was replaced by submissions in XFDF format in the PDF 1.5 specification. XFDF conforms to the XML standard. XFDF can be used in the same way as FDF; e.g., form data is submitted to a server, modifications are made, then sent back and the new form data is imported in an ...

  9. Nigerian Correctional Service - Wikipedia

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    The Nigerian Correctional Service is a federal phenomenon. i.e. there are no State Correctional Services in the Nigeria. Every Custodial Centre is a Federal Facility. The operation of the Service is supervised by the Ministry of Interior and the Civil Defence, Fire, Immigration and Corrections Board. [5] The Controller General of the Nigerian ...