• American prison literature is literature written by Americans who are incarcerated. It is a distinct literary phenomenon that is increasingly studied...
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    Prison literature is a literary genre characterized by literature that is written while the author is confined in a location against his or her will,...
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    are sent to prison for the same crime. However, since the early 2000s, the incarceration rates for African American and Hispanic American women have declined...
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    camps. In American English, the terms prison and jail have separate definitions, though this is not always adhered to in casual speech. A prison or penitentiary...
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    (2016-07-27). "Linguistic creativity in American prison settings". Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature. 40 (1): 81. doi:10.17951/lsmll.2016...
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  • A military prison is a prison operated by a military. Military prisons are used variously to house prisoners of war, unlawful combatants, those whose...
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  • Prison rape commonly refers to the rape of inmates in prison by other inmates or prison staff. In 2001, Human Rights Watch estimated that at least 4.3...
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    84639°E / 21.02528; 105.84639 Hỏa Lò Prison (Vietnamese: [hwa᷉ː lɔ̂], Nhà tù Hỏa Lò; French: Prison Hỏa Lò) was a prison in Hanoi originally used by the French...
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  • 1298–1299 – Marco Polo dictates his Travels to Rustichello da Pisa while in prison in Genoa, according to tradition. 1300, Easter – The events of Dante's Divine...
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    Sing Sing (redirect from Sing Sing (prison))
    was the first documented expansion of the prison library to include moral teachings from secular literature. Thomas Mott Osborne's tenure as warden of...
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    United States literature consists of American literature written about the Southern United States or by writers from the region. Literature written about...
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    The prison abolition movement is a network of groups and activists that seek to reduce or eliminate prisons and the prison system, and replace them with...
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    A debtors' prison is a prison for people who are unable to pay debt. Until the mid-19th century, debtors' prisons (usually similar in form to locked workhouses)...
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    Between 1861 and 1865, American Civil War prison camps were operated by the Union and the Confederacy to detain over 400,000 captured soldiers. From the...
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    the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), believe that the economic incentives of prison construction, prison privatization, prison labor, and prison service...
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    Victor Folke Nelson, have also contributed to the theories and literature on American prison reform. This is founded on the "eye for an eye, tooth for a...
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  • media related to Prison art. Prison tattooing Prison blogs Prison literature Prison music Steinhauer, Jillian (2019-12-12). "Prison Art, a Dark Place...
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  • H. Bruce Franklin (category Use American English from October 2021)
    academic focus are science fiction, prison literature, environmentalism, the Vietnam War and its aftermath, and American cultural history. He was instrumental...
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    The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Swedish: Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually...
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  • United States and worldwide through the advancement of literature and human rights. PEN America is the largest of the more than 100 PEN centers worldwide...
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    The New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila is the main insular prison designed to house the prison population of the Philippines. It is maintained...
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    Panopticon (redirect from Prison panopticon)
    Bentham's panopticon prison in the social structures of 1970s Europe. This led to the widespread use of the panopticon in literature, comic books, computer...
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    formerly known as San Quentin State Prison, is a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation state prison for men, located north of San Francisco...
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  • Life Prison art Prison literature Prison music Sebastian Matkey. Blogging Behind Bars: How Prison Blogs Revived Prison Literature in the United States....
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    literature Turkish literature Yemeni literature North American literature American literature African American literature Native American literature Southern...
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    Dorset, England. During the American War of Independence, more American Patriots died as prisoners of war on British prison ships than died in every engagement...
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    just before the American Revolution, though penal incarceration efforts had been ongoing in England since as early as the 1500s, and prisons in the form of...
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    Russell Bentley (category Use American English from March 2023)
    smuggler who was later convicted of drug smuggling and spent five years in prison. Bentley, a self-declared communist, came to global attention in 2022[citation...
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  • Mary Kay Letourneau (category 20th-century American criminals)
    and reinstated the prison sentence for the maximum allowed by law of seven and a half years. Eight months after returning to prison, she gave birth to...
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    HM Prison Wandsworth is a Category B men's prison at Wandsworth in the London Borough of Wandsworth, South West London, England. It is operated by His...
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