and Newgate Prison, two competing systems of imprisonment emerged in the United States by the 1820s. The "Auburn" (or "Congregate System") emerged from...

justice system, with nearly two million people incarcerated in state or federal prisons and local jails. The United States has the largest known prison population...

A prison gang is an inmate organization that operates within a prison system, that has a corporate entity, exists into perpetuity, and whose membership...

state of prison labor in the United States has distinct roots in the slavery-era economy and society. The first for-profit prison, and prison to use...

This is a list of lists of U.S. state prisons (2010) (not including federal prisons or county jails in the United States or prisons in U.S. territories):...

incarcerated in the United States. A United States Department of Justice report, Sexual Victimization in Prisons and Jails Reported by Inmates, states that "In 2011–12...

into the Bureau of Prisons). The Bureau of Prisons was established within the Department of Justice on May 14, 1930 by the United States Congress, and was...

List of prisons in the United Kingdom is a list of all 141 current prisons as of 2024 in the United Kingdom spread across the three UK legal systems of England...

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Prison overcrowding in the United States is a social phenomenon occurring when the demand for space in a U.S. prison exceeds the capacity for prisoners...

federal prison for male inmates in northeast Kansas. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice...

(ADX) prison is a "control-unit" prison, or a unit within prisons, which represents the most secure level of custody in the prison systems of certain...

A People's History of the United States is a 1980 nonfiction book (updated in 2003) by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn. In the book...

a United States federal prison in Fremont County, Colorado, operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice...

In the United States penal system, upwards of 20 percent of state and federal prison inmates and 18 percent of local jail inmates are kept in solitary...

Similar or related types of imprisonments and prisons include: History of United States prison systems Auburn System Boot camp Borstal Death row Life imprisonment...

Press. p. 17. https://web.archive.org/web/20070620150333/http://co.cayuga.ny.us/history/cayugahistory/prison.html History of United States prison systems...

The incarceration of women in the United States refers to the imprisonment of women in both prisons and jails in the United States. There are approximately...

security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The site of a fort since the...

verify] Around this time, across the United States prison system, the prison population increased markedly. As prison populations grew, the informal convict...

Prison for Profit, a number of observations about the history of carceral systems and labor. In particular, Dr. Bernstein notes that, "Early systems,...

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The history of immigration to the United States details the movement of people to the United States from the colonial era to the present day. Throughout...

the United States (1976) online, statistics on telephone and telegraph systems Ward, Robert C. "The chaos of convergence: A study of the process of decay...

The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous...

higher education systems of other countries, post-secondary education in the United States is largely deregulated, giving students a variety of choices. Common...

in the United States penal system practice a variety of religions. Their basic constitutional right to worship has been reinforced by decades of court...

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a prison sentence of more than a year. Apprendi v. New Jersey Fair Sentencing Act History of United States Prison Systems Safety valve (law) United States...

United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States)...