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  2. History of United States prison systems - Wikipedia

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    From the efforts at the Walnut Street Jail and Newgate Prison, two competing systems of imprisonment emerged in the United States by the 1820s. The "Auburn" (or "Congregate System") emerged from New York's prison of the same name between 1819 and 1823. [110] And the "Pennsylvania" (or "Separate System") emerged in that state between 1826 and ...

  3. Korea Correctional Service - Wikipedia

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    corrections .go .kr. The Korea Correctional Service ( Korean: 교정본부; 矯正本部) is an agency of the Ministry of Justice of South Korea responsible for correctional services . The Korea Correctional Service is headquartered in Building 1 of the Government Complex-Gwacheon in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi, in the Seoul metropolitan area. [1]

  4. Kansas Department of Corrections - Wikipedia

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    Agency executive. Jeff Zmuda, Secretary of Corrections. Website. doc .ks .gov. The Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) [1] is a cabinet-level agency of Kansas that operates the state's correctional facilities, both juvenile and adult, the state's parole system, and the state's Prisoner Review Board. It is headquartered in Topeka.

  5. Perger prism - Wikipedia

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    Perger prism. A Perger prism or Perger–Porro prism system is a prism, that is used to invert (rotate by 180°) an image. The special feature of this prism is that, like a traditional double Porro prism system, it manages this with only four beam deflections and has neither a roof edge with the accompanying phase correction problems, a ...

  6. Roof prism - Wikipedia

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    Roof prism. A roof pentaprism used in Single-lens reflex cameras; the lower right face is the roof ( dach ). A roof prism, also called a Dachkanten prism or Dach prism (from German: Dachkante, lit. "roof edge"), is a reflective prism containing a section where two faces meet at a 90° angle, resembling the roof of a building and thus the name.

  7. Prisons in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Prisons in Russia consist of four types of facilities: [1] pre-trial institutions; educative or juvenile colonies; corrective colonies; and prisons. A corrective colony is the most common, with 705 institutions (excluding 7 corrective colonies for convicts imprisoned for life) in 2019 across the administrative divisions of Russia.

  8. Uppendahl prism - Wikipedia

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    An Uppendahl prism [1] is an erecting prism, i.e. a special reflection prism that is used to invert an image (rotation by 180°). The erecting system consists of three partial prisms made of optical glass with a high refractive index cemented together to form a symmetric assembly and is [2] used in microscopy as well as in binoculars technology.

  9. Abbe–Koenig prism - Wikipedia

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    An Abbe–Koenig prism is a type of reflecting prism, used to invert an image (rotate it by 180°). They are commonly used in binoculars and some telescopes for this purpose. The prism is named after Ernst Abbe and Albert Koenig . The prism is made from two glass prisms, which are optically cemented together to form a symmetric, shallow Vee ...