• Auburn Correctional Facility is a state prison on State Street in Auburn, New York, United States. It was built on land that was once a Cayuga village...
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    silence at all times. The silent system evolved during the 1820s at Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York, as an alternative to and modification of the Pennsylvania...
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  • Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison is a 1901 silent film produced by the Edison Studios arms of Edison Manufacturing Company. The film...
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    unaltered Tiffany chapel interior known to exist. In 1816, Auburn Prison (now the Auburn Correctional Facility) was founded as a model for the contemporary...
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    Sing Sing (redirect from Sing Sing (prison))
    Elam Lynds, warden of Auburn Prison and a former United States Army captain, the task of constructing a new, more modern prison. Lynds spent months researching...
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    Czolgosz Leon Czolgosz mugshot after his arrest Czolgosz's prison record at Auburn State Prison After McKinley's death, newly inaugurated President Theodore...
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    In the Auburn Prison, John Cray developed the following form of the lockstep, as part of the penal system that has become known as the Auburn system,...
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    bee-striped uniform and hat was used. Striped prison uniforms commonly used in the 19th century (the Auburn system) began to be abolished in parts of the...
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    in Paris. The prison was modeled after the Auburn prison in Auburn, New York, and consisted of 200 solitary confinement cells. The prison population consisted...
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    tools needed to change. Auburn state prison became the first prison to implement the rehabilitative idea. The function of the prison was to isolate, teach...
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    death without unnecessary suffering. Kemmler was executed in New York's Auburn Prison on August 6, 1890; the "state electrician" was Edwin Davis. The first...
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    March 30, 1908, Chester Gillette was executed by electric chair at Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York. Gillette was buried in Soule Cemetery in Sennett, New...
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  • or the Inmate of a Gloomy Prison, With the Mysteries and Miseries of the New York House of Reffuge [sic] and Auburn Prison Unmasked is the title of a...
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  • John Hulbert (executioner) (category People from Auburn, New York)
    tenure. A trained electrician, by 1903 Hulbert had become Auburn Prison's chief engineer. Auburn housed one of the three electric chairs in which condemned...
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    twenty years in prison. She spent her time in Auburn Prison.[citation needed] Ed Cooney had his fingers smashed in a machine while in prison, and had his...
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    Separate system (category Prisons)
    Similar or related types of imprisonments and prisons include: History of United States prison systems Auburn System Boot camp Borstal Death row Life imprisonment...
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  • know." Chambers was released from Auburn Prison on February 14, 2003, after having served the entirety of his prison term due to his numerous infractions...
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    from talking when eating and working together, implementing it at Auburn State Prison and Sing Sing at Ossining. The aim of this was rehabilitative: the...
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  • in Auburn, New York. It is heavily implied that he is the ghost of William Kemmler, the first inmate executed by electric chair at Auburn Prison in 1890...
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    executed by electricity at Auburn Prison, Auburn, New York on August 6, 1890. "Old Sparky" was first used at Sing Sing prison for a mass execution on July...
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    law replacing hanging with electrocution. A chair was ready at the Auburn state prison. However, the leading developers of electrical power, including George...
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    his expertise on prisons and prison reforms. Most prisons at the time the book was written used either the Pennsylvania or the Auburn system. The Pennsylvania...
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    convicted of bigamy and sentenced to two years in prison. On July 10, 1926, he was sent back to Auburn Prison by a grand jury in Vineland, New Jersey. When...
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  • shortly apprehended. While being transported on the Auburn and Syracuse Railroad to serve a seven-year prison sentence for the crime, the shackled Lett escaped...
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    months in state prison at Sing Sing in Ossining, New York, on a grand larceny conviction. After a transfer to Auburn Prison in Auburn, New York, Buchalter...
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  • later sentenced to death. He was executed by the electric chair in Auburn Prison on October 29, 1901. Czolgosz's actions were politically motivated,...
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    Thomas Mott Osborne (category People from Auburn, New York)
    Commission on Prison Reform. On behalf of the commission that year he entered the Auburn Prison, now Auburn Correctional Facility, in prison garb insisting...
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  • The Citizen, commonly referred to as The Auburn Citizen, is the only daily newspaper published in Auburn, New York. The paper serves Cayuga County and...
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    warden of Elmira in 1917. In 1929 he was appointed as the acting warden at Auburn Correctional Facility following a riot. He retired after being stabbed in...
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