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2567. Managed by. CoreCivic. Director. Barbara Wagner. Adams County Correctional Center ( ACCC) is a medium security prison for men located in unincorporated Adams County, Mississippi, near Natchez, [1] It is owned and operated by CoreCivic under contract with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons. [2] After striking ground in August 2007 at 20 ...
Opened. 1878. Managed by. Illinois Department of Corrections. Menard Correctional Center, known prior to 1970 as Southern Illinois Penitentiary, is an Illinois state prison located in the town of Chester in Randolph County, Illinois. It houses maximum-security and high-medium-security adult males. The average daily population as of 2007 was 3,410.
It is one of 34 adult institutions operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. [2] Opened in 1880, Folsom is the state's second-oldest prison, after San Quentin, and the first in the United States to have electricity. [3] Folsom was also one of the first maximum security prisons.
The Georgia Department of Corrections operates prisons, transitional centers, probation detention centers, and substance use disorder treatment facilities. In addition, state inmates are also housed at private and county correctional facilities.
Opened. February 1993. Managed by. California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Warden. Raybon C. Johnson Jr. California State Prison, Los Angeles County (LAC) is a male-only state prison located in the city of Lancaster, in Los Angeles County, California. The only state prison located in the county, it is also referenced as Los ...
Superintendent Douglas DeMoura. The Massachusetts Correctional Institution—Cedar Junction (MCI-Cedar Junction), formerly known as MCI-Walpole, is a maximum security prison under the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Department of Correction. It was opened in 1956 to replace Charlestown State Prison, the oldest prison in the nation at that time.
View the original article to see embedded media. In this somewhat graphic video, we learn the triumphant story of Bear, a dog who was originally rescued with a three-and-a-half pound tumor ...
Prism dioptres. Prism correction is commonly specified in prism dioptres, a unit of angular measurement that is loosely related to the dioptre. Prism dioptres are represented by the Greek symbol delta (Δ) in superscript. A prism of power 1 Δ would produce 1 unit of displacement for an object held 100 units from the prism. [2]