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... 14 KB (1,573 words) - 21:06, 3 May 2024 |
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... 107 KB (11,210 words) - 20:21, 7 May 2024 |
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... 13 KB (1,145 words) - 22:39, 7 May 2024 |
Bastøy Prison (Norwegian: Bastøy fengsel) is a low-security, male-only prison on Bastøy Island, Norway, located in the Horten municipality about 75 km... 10 KB (1,089 words) - 17:36, 7 February 2024 |
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... 10 KB (1,037 words) - 21:17, 10 March 2024 |
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... 19 KB (1,526 words) - 03:07, 26 April 2024 |
military prison. In 1934, the island was converted into a federal prison, Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary. The strong currents around the island and cold... 53 KB (5,818 words) - 18:36, 12 May 2024 |
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... 93 KB (10,184 words) - 18:58, 2 May 2024 |
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... 27 KB (2,220 words) - 18:17, 29 April 2024 |
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)... 9 KB (878 words) - 00:56, 1 May 2024 |
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... 28 KB (3,739 words) - 15:11, 3 May 2024 |
The McNeil Island Corrections Center (MICC) was a prison in the northwest United States, operated by the Washington State Department of Corrections. It... 8 KB (665 words) - 14:33, 14 February 2024 |
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... 24 KB (3,208 words) - 16:23, 27 February 2024 |
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... 48 KB (5,026 words) - 10:27, 28 April 2024 |
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... 20 KB (2,064 words) - 09:40, 18 April 2024 |
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... 16 KB (1,852 words) - 00:27, 14 March 2024 |
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... 11 KB (1,281 words) - 11:19, 7 April 2024 |
ʻAtā (category Prison islands) ʻAtā is a small island in the Tongatapu group of Tonga. It has been used since 2001 as an open prison for Tongan criminals, especially young people. In... 1 KB (98 words) - 03:25, 17 October 2023 |
the island by boat is so treacherous that prison officials constructed a cable car system to connect the island to the nearby Île Royale. They used the... 7 KB (415 words) - 21:17, 16 January 2024 |
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... 3 KB (242 words) - 19:40, 2 July 2023 |