A prison island is an island housing a prison. Islands have often been used as sites of prisons throughout history due to their natural isolation preventing...
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Rikers Island is a 413-acre (167.14-hectare) prison island in the East River in the Bronx that contains New York City's largest jail. Named after Abraham...
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Robben Island Prison is an inactive prison on Robben Island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometers (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South...
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Changuu (redirect from Prison Island)
Changuu Island (also known as Kibandiko, Prison or Quarantine Island) (Kisiwa cha Changuu, in Swahili) is an island in the Mjini Magharibi Region, Tanzania...
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Indres Naidoo's book "Island in Chains" became the first published account of prison life on the island. The maximum security prison for political prisoners...
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more than 5,000 Confederates would swell the population of Rock Island military prison. They were kept in 84 barracks, each holding around 100 prisoners...
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Bastøy Prison (Norwegian: Bastøy fengsel) is a low-security, male-only prison on Bastøy Island, Norway, located in the Horten municipality about 75 km...
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Corrections and became the McNeil Island Corrections Center, until it closed in 2011. It was the last remaining island prison in the country to be accessible...
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Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island (FCI Terminal Island) is a low-security United States federal prison for male inmates in Los Angeles, California...
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military prison. In 1934, the island was converted into a federal prison, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. The strong currents around the island and cold...
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Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary (redirect from Alcatraz Prison)
Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (English: /ˈælkəˌtræz/, Spanish: [alkaˈtɾas] "the gannet") or The Rock, was a maximum security federal prison on...
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The Deer Island Prison (c. 1880–1991) in Suffolk County, Massachusetts was located on Deer Island in Boston Harbor. Once known as the Deer Island House of...
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İmralı prison is a high-security prison on the island of İmralı in the Sea of Marmara in Turkey. It holds prisoners from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)...
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A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where people...
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1953, in the Salvation Islands of French Guiana. Opened in 1852, the Devil's Island system received convicts from the Prison of St-Laurent-du-Maroni...
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officials selected Johnson's Island as the site for a prison camp to hold up to 2,500 captured Confederate officers. The island offered easy access by ship...
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hospitals and prisons, with very limited access. It was renamed Welfare Island in 1921. Following several proposals to redevelop Welfare Island in the 1960s...
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The McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) was a prison in the northwest United States, operated by the Washington State Department of Corrections. It...
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Goli Otok (redirect from Goli otok prison)
[ɡôliː ǒtok]; lit. 'Barren Island'; Italian: Isola Calva) is a barren, uninhabited island that was the site of a political prison which was in use when Croatia...
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Assessing the ambiguity of Scandinavian penal exceptionalism on Norway's Prison Island". Punishment & Society. 16 (1): 104–123. doi:10.1177/1462474513504799...
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Château d'If (redirect from If (island))
currents of the Château d'If made it an ideal escape-proof prison, very much like the island of Alcatraz in California in more recent times. Its use as...
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The Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) is a government agency of the U.S. state of Rhode Island operating state prisons. It has its headquarters...
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Brisbane River. Originally used as a prison, it is now a national park. Local Australian Aboriginals called the island Noogoon but it was renamed St Helena...
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Incarceration in Norway (redirect from Prisons in Norway)
offender and attempting to make them functioning members of society. Norway's prison system is renowned as one of the most effective and humane in the world...
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Nusa Kambangan (redirect from Nusakambangan Island)
number of supermax prisons on the island, some of which are still operational and run by the Ministry of Law and Human Rights. The island was declared off-limits...
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Ryder White, a Banoi Island Defense Force (BIDF) commander who is currently trapped in a high-security prison located on a remote island, only accessible...
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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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The island's strategic location within the harbour meant it was used at times for defence and as a prison. Since the early 21st century the island has...
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Nazino tragedy (redirect from Nazino Island)
Stalin's prison island". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 29 September 2009. Franchetti, Mark (8 April 2007). "The cannibal hell of Stalin's prison island". The...
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Rhode Island Maximum Security Prison, formerly known as Howard Prison, is a Rhode Island Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Cranston...
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