A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer is...
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Prison Break is an American drama television series created by Paul Scheuring for Fox. The series revolves around two brothers, Lincoln Burrows (Dominic...
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maximum (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...
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Prison break may refer to: Prison breakout, a prison escape Prison Break, a 2005–2017 American TV serial drama Prison Break: The Final Break, a 2009 American...
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Prison camp may refer to: Internment (concentration camp or internment camp) Federal prison camp, low-security facility among those on list of U.S. federal...
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The Stanford prison experiment (SPE) was a psychological experiment conducted in August 1971. It was a two-week simulation of a prison environment that...
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Prison Break is an American serial drama television series that premiered on the Fox network on August 29, 2005, and finished its fifth season on May...
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Lefortovo Prison (Russian: Лефортовская тюрьма, IPA: [lʲɪˈfortəvə] ) is a prison in Moscow, Russia, which has been under the jurisdiction of the Russian...
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His Majesty's Prisons (Her Majesty's Prisons in the case of a female monarch) is the name given to prisons in the United Kingdom, as well as some in Australia...
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A debtors' prison is a prison for people who are unable to pay debt. Until the mid-19th century, debtors' prisons (usually similar in form to locked workhouses)...
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Sing Sing (redirect from Sing Sing (prison))
Facility, formerly Ossining Correctional Facility, is a maximum-security prison operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision...
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13°11′07″E / 52.52111°N 13.18528°E / 52.52111; 13.18528 Spandau Prison was a former military prison located in the Spandau borough of West Berlin (present-day...
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His Majesty's Prison Service (HMPS) is a part of HM Prison and Probation Service (formerly the National Offender Management Service), which is the part...
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private prison, or for-profit prison, is a place where people are imprisoned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency. Private prison companies...
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Changi Prison Complex, often known simply as Changi Prison, is a prison complex in the namesake district of Changi in the eastern part of Singapore. It...
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Prison Planet may refer to: "Escape from the Prison Planet", a song by Clutch from the album Clutch Prison Planet, a 2008 album by the East Coast Avengers...
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A prison furlough is an authorized temporary release granted to a prison inmate. Prisoners on furlough may be allowed to leave unescorted, but, if accompanied...
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England and Wales (122 prisons), Scotland, (15 prisons) and Northern Ireland (4 prisons). Also included are a number of historical prisons no longer in current...
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Incarceration in the United States (redirect from United States prison population)
people incarcerated in state or federal prisons and local jails. The United States has the largest known prison population in the world. It has 5% of the...
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Prison sexuality (or prison sex or penitentiary sex) consists of sexual relationships between prisoners or between a prisoner and a prison employee or...
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The fifth and final season of Prison Break (also known as Prison Break: Resurrection) is a limited event television series and a revival of the original...
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There are eighteen adult prisons in New Zealand. Three prisons house female offenders, one each in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The remaining...
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A military prison is a prison operated by a military. Military prisons are used variously to house prisoners of war, unlawful combatants, those whose...
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Nafha Prison Neve Tirtza Women's Prison Ayalon Prison Ofer Prison Giv'on Prison Rimonim Prison Damun Prison Gilboa Prison Tzalmon Prison Hermon Prison Shata...
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Prison tattooing is the practice of creating and displaying tattoos in a prison environment. Present-day American and Russian prisoners may convey gang...
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Guantanamo Bay detention camp (redirect from Guantanamo prison)
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay (NSGB), also called GTMO (pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/...
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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): Alabama...
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title varies depending on the type of prison. The prison warden supervises all the operations within the prison. Prisons vary in size, with some housing thousands...
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A prison cell (also known as a jail cell) is a small room in a prison or police station where a prisoner is held. Cells greatly vary by their furnishings...
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Life imprisonment (redirect from Life in prison)
imprisonment for a crime under which the convicted criminal is to remain in prison for the rest of their natural life (or until pardoned, paroled, or commuted...
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