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    Charlestown State Prison was a correctional facility in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts operated by the Massachusetts Department of Correction. The...
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    River connected Boston with Charlestown. An 87-acre (35 ha) Navy Yard was established in 1800; Charlestown State Prison opened in 1805. The Bunker Hill...
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  • following prisons are under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Department of Correction. Bay State Correctional Center Charlestown State Prison Massachusetts...
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  • security prison under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Department of Correction. It was opened in 1956 to replace Charlestown State Prison, the oldest...
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    Seven years later, they were executed in the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison. After a few hours' deliberation on July 14, 1921, the jury convicted...
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    inmates were taken out of Concord and transferred to the Charlestown State Prison in Charlestown, Massachusetts and Concord became the "Massachusetts Reformatory"...
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  • Gertson were executed in the electric chair at the Massachusetts State Prison at Charlestown shortly after midnight on the night of May 8–9, 1947. On April...
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    Jesse Pomeroy (category People from Charlestown, Boston)
    Prison at Charlestown, and began his life in solitary. He was 16 years and 9 months old. Pomeroy remained incarcerated at the Charlestown State Prison. In prison...
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  • James Allen (highwayman) (category American people who died in prison custody)
    was in and out of prison from 1825-1837, eventually imprisoned in the Massachusetts State Prison, which opened in 1805, in Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts...
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  • escape from a line of 13 prisoners after attending chapel at the Charlestown State Prison. Despite an attempted intervening tackle from a prisoner trusty...
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  • Capital punishment in Massachusetts (category Capital punishment in the United States by state)
    Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed by electric chair at Charlestown State Prison for their conviction in the murder of a Correctional Officer and...
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    execution was to take place on the week of September 7, 1902, at the Charlestown State Prison. Best was the first prisoner in Essex County, Massachusetts, to...
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    state prisons across the eastern border states of America. Newgate State Prison in Greenwich Village was built in 1796, New Jersey added its prison facility...
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    Bunker Hill Community College (category Charlestown, Boston)
    066 sq mi) main campus is in Boston's Charlestown neighborhood, on the site of the former Charlestown State Prison that closed in 1955. It is served by...
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    Victor Folke Nelson (category Prisoners and detainees of New York (state))
    run and escape from Charlestown State Prison in Massachusetts. He spent some days planning his escape, even modifying a pair of prison-issued shoes, replacing...
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    Malcolm X (category Activists from New York (state))
    ten years at Charlestown State Prison for larceny and breaking and entering. Two years later, Malcolm was transferred to Norfolk Prison Colony (also in...
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  • Warry Charles (category American people who died in prison custody)
    J. Hurley and moved to the prison hospital the next day. On August 9, 1915, Charles died in the Charlestown State Prison. His cause of death was "rheumatism...
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  • to Charlestown, and warns people to be lawful so to not end up incarcerated like him. The Charlestown neighborhood contained the Charlestown State Prison...
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  • bias. In 1927, following Sacco and Vanzetti's execution in the Charlestown State Prison, they were laid out at the Langone funeral home in the North End...
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  • world at this time. August 23 – Sacco and Vanzetti are executed in Charlestown State Prison in Boston, Massachusetts. August 24–25 – The 1927 Nova Scotia hurricane...
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    mills at Watertown but contracted for the labor of convicts in the Charlestown State Prison, where he set up a large number of looms. The manufacture of duck...
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    Thomas Mott Osborne (category American prison reformers)
    who would convince Nelson to turn himself in after escaping from Charlestown State Prison in Boston. His books, public speaking and notoriety helped end...
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  • Auburn Correctional Facility is a state prison on State Street in Auburn, New York, United States. It was built on land that was once a Cayuga village...
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    the crowds outside the prison became so large that the outer gates were closed to prevent the crowd encroaching on the prison premises and a special police...
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  • for Massachusetts Juvenile Court (1933-1935), Charlestown State Prison and the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Alper also worked as a research director of the...
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  • records for. On June 23 he was sentenced to three to five years in Charlestown State Prison. O'Brien appealed his conviction and on March 13, 1940, the Massachusetts...
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  • William M. Forgrave (category Ferris State University alumni)
    four and a half years, with two and a half to be served at the Charlestown State Prison and the remainder to be served in the House of Correction. He appealed...
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  • Lew, and George Middleton, among others. The Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown marks the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill, in which a number of African...
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  • The Town (2010 film) (category Charlestown, Boston)
    the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. Four lifelong friends from Charlestown, Boston, Douglas "Doug" MacRay, James "Jem" Coughlin, Albert "Gloansy"...
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  • to delay his move to Charlestown State Prison. In 1933, Bishop began conducting a number of gambling raids. On August 26, 20 state troopers raided the...
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