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Joliet Correctional Center, which was a completely separate prison from Stateville Correctional Center in nearby Crest Hill, opened in 1858. The prison was built with convict labor leased by the state to contractor Lorenzo P. Sanger and warden Samuel K. Casey. The limestone used to build the prison was quarried on the site.
The Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago ( MCC Chicago) is a United States federal prison in Chicago, Illinois, which holds male and female prisoners of all security levels prior to and during court proceedings in the Northern District of Illinois, as well as inmates serving brief sentences. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons ...
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K. Neeley. The Federal Correctional Institution, Aliceville(FCI Aliceville) is a low-security United States federal prison for female inmates in Alabama. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice. It is located in unincorporated Pickens County, between Aliceville and Pickensville, and ...
The Graterford grounds include an extensive prison farm on 1,730 acres (7.0 km 2); the 62-acre (250,000 m 2) prison compound itself lies within 30-foot (9.1 m) high walls surmounted by nine staffed towers. An $80 million construction program completed in 1989 added a new administration building, a 28-bed infirmary, and 372 additional cells.
The Federal Prison Camp, Pensacola ( FPC Pensacola) is a minimum-security United States federal prison for male inmates in unincorporated Escambia County, Florida, [2] near Pensacola. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice . FPC Pensacola is located on Saufley Field, an outlying ...
Ameelio. Ameelio is a technology non-profit which provides free communications and educational tools for incarcerated communities and their relatives. It is the first non-profit telecommunications company to provide free prison communication services in the United States. [1] [2]
United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz ( English: / ˈælkəˌtræz /, Spanish: [ a l k a ˈ t ɾ a s] "the gannet ") or The Rock, was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States. The site of a fort since the 1850s, the ...