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The United States Penitentiary, Atwater (USP Atwater) is a high-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Merced County, California. [1] The institution also includes a minimum-security satellite camp. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.
The seal of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the agency that manages U.S. federal prisons. The Federal Bureau of Prisons classifies prisons into seven categories: United States penitentiaries; Federal correctional institutions; Private correctional institutions; Federal prison camps; Administrative facilities; Federal correctional complexes [1]
Atwater Library of the Mechanics' Institute of Montreal, an independent library in Montreal operated by the Mechanics' Institute of Montreal; Atwater Market, a public market in Montreal; Atwater v. City of Lago Vista, a United States Supreme Court case; United States Penitentiary, Atwater, a prison near Atwater, California
Dorence Atwater (February 3, 1845 – November 26, 1910) was a Union Army soldier and later a businessman and diplomat who served as the United States Consul to Tahiti.. In July 1863, during the American Civil War, Atwater was captured by the Confederate Army and found himself among the first batch of prisoners at the notorious Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp.
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Atwater's most noteworthy campaign was the 1988 presidential election, when he served as campaign manager for Republican nominee George H. W. Bush. Atwater performing at the inauguration of George H. W. Bush in 1989. Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis supported a felon furlough program originally begun in 1972, under Republican Governor Francis ...
A 19th-century jail 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, and slammer, is a facility where people are imprisoned under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes.
Aerial view of United States Penitentiary Victorville. USP Victorville is 630,000 square feet (59,000 m 2) and is designed to house 960 male inmates in six housing units.. Six V-shaped buildings (units 1–3 on east side, units 4–6 on west side) facing each other and a larger maintenance building surround a central yard with a tower in the mid