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Today, about 2 million people are locked up in the U.S. – more than almost any country in the world – a number that began spiking in the 1980s when tough-on-crime laws were passed.
Potosi Correctional Center ( PCC) is a Missouri Department of Corrections prison located in unincorporated Washington County, Missouri, near Mineral Point. [3] The facility currently houses 800 death row, maximum security and high-risk male inmates. [citation needed] The facility, which opened in 1989, is a maximum security prison. In 1989 it ...
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.
Located in Lincoln, it is the oldest state correctional facility in Nebraska, opening in 1869. Until after World War I , it was the only adult correctional facility in the state. During 1980–1981, the existing cellblocks constructed during the second half of the 19th century were replaced by four (later five) modular housing units.
The entrance to Potosi Correction Center is seen on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Potosi, Missouri. The state prison houses death row prisoners.
Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP), also known as Oregon State Prison, is a maximum security prison in the northwest United States in Salem, Oregon. Originally opened in Portland 173 years ago in 1851, it relocated to Salem fifteen years later. The 2,242-capacity prison is the oldest in the state; the all-male facility is operated by the Oregon ...
May 18, 2024 at 11:49 PM. RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Virginia State Police investigator seemed puzzled about what the inmate was describing: “unbearable” conditions at a prison so cold that ...
Lena Tzivekis, York Daily Record. April 10, 2024 at 10:44 AM. A York County Prison corrections officer who was previously charged with having indecent contact with an inmate while being off duty ...