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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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The Bordeaux Prison (French: Prison de Bordeaux), also known as the Montreal Detention Centre, is a provincial prison in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is...
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The California State Prison System is a system of prisons, fire camps, contract beds, reentry programs, and other special programs administered by the...
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"Prison Sex" is a song by American rock band Tool. Frontman Maynard James Keenan wrote the lyrics. The song was released as the second single from their...
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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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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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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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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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Mokotów Prison (Polish: Więzienie mokotowskie, also known as Rakowiecka Prison) is a prison in Warsaw's borough of Mokotów, Poland, located at 37 Rakowiecka...
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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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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 of peoples or prison of nations (Russian: тюрьма народов) is a phrase first used by Vladimir Lenin in 1914. He applied it to Russia, describing...
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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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located near Andersonville, Georgia, preserves the former Andersonville Prison (also known as Camp Sumter), a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp during the...
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Joliet Correctional Center (redirect from Joliet State Prison)
Penitentiary, colloquially as Joliet Prison, Joliet Penitentiary, the Old Joliet Prison, and the Collins Street Prison) was a prison in Joliet, Illinois, United...
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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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A prison ship, often more accurately described as a prison hulk, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive...
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Landsberg Prison is a prison in the town of Landsberg am Lech in the southwest of the German state of Bavaria, about 65 kilometres (40 mi) west-southwest...
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This is a list of longest prison sentences ever given to a single person, worldwide. Listed are instances where people have been sentenced to jail terms...
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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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