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    A prison ship, often more accurately described as a prison hulk, is a current or former seagoing vessel that has been modified to become a place of substantive...
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  • Prison Ship, also known as Star Slammer, Adventures of Taura, Part 1 , Starslammer: The Escape and Prison Ship Star Slammer, is a 1986 American science...
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    40°41′30″N 73°58′32″W / 40.6918°N 73.9756°W / 40.6918; -73.9756 The Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument is a war memorial at Fort Greene Park, in the New York...
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    Prison hulks were decommissioned ships that authorities used as floating prisons in the 18th and 19th centuries. They were extensively used in England...
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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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    the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument at Fort Greene Park, once the scene of a portion of the Battle of Long Island. Survivors of the British prison ships include...
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    before being converted to a hospital ship in 1771. In 1780 she was converted again, this time to a prison ship, and was used by the British during the...
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    during the Second World War. It was later used as a barracks ship and then a prison ship in Northern Ireland. It was built to support the increasing number...
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    Success was an Australian prison ship, built in 1840 at Natmoo[where?], Burma, for Cockerell & Co. of Calcutta. Between the 1890s and the 1930s, she was...
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    prisoners of war sometimes referred to British prison ships they were held in using the terms "hell" and "hell ship". Captured Patriot military personnel who...
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    ships than died in every single battle of the war, combined. These men are memorialized, and many of their remains are interred, at the Prison Ship Martyrs'...
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  • HMS Argenta (category Prison ships)
    HMS Argenta (originally the American cargo ship SS Argenta) was a prison ship of the British Royal Navy. The two deck steamer was laid down in July 1917...
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    SS Cap Arcona (category Prison ships)
    of Rügen, was a large German ocean liner, later a ship of the Kriegsmarine, and finally a prison ship. A flagship of the Hamburg Südamerikanische...
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    Royal Navy ships in dock, who were sent to the receiving ship for accommodation, or "hulked". Hulks have a variety of uses such as housing, prisons, salvage...
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    notably includes the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument and crypt, which honors some 11,500 patriots who died aboard British prison ships during the American...
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  • The women in prison film (or WiP film) is a subgenre of exploitation film that began in the early 20th century and continues to the present day. Their...
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    USS Bataan (LHD-5) (category Ships articles with undated status)
    reported that "The US had admitted that Bataan and Peleliu were used as prison ships between December 2001 and January 2002". On 13 January 2010, Bataan was...
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  • The bust of Edward Snowden, called Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument 2.0 by its creators, was an ephemeral, illegally installed public sculpture of Edward...
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    Subcommittee on Trust and Estates On April 11, 2013, Jeffries introduced the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument Preservation Act (H.R. 1501; 113th Congress). The bill...
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    Prison slang is an argot used primarily by criminals and detainees in correctional institutions. It is a form of anti-language. Many of the terms deal...
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  • private prison, or for-profit prison, is a place where people are imprisoned by a third party that is contracted by a government agency. Private prison companies...
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  • England and Wales (122 prisons), Scotland, (15 prisons) and Northern Ireland (4 prisons). Also included are a number of historical prisons no longer in current...
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    Male/Category C prison ship berthed in Portland Harbour in Dorset, England. It was the latest in a lengthy history of British prison ships, which included...
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    Central Park and Prospect Park, in 1867. Fort Greene Park contains the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument, which includes a crypt designed by Olmsted and Vaux...
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  • him later imprisoned on the prison ship HMS Jersey (1736).: 582  Other works only mention his imprisonment on the prison ship,: 124  and previously mentioned...
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    Seamen's Hospital as temporary hospital ship 1849, to Sheerness as prison ship for Russians 1854, school ship in Queensborough Swale 1860, broken up 1869...
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    transferred from the prison ship HMS Maidstone. The camp was comprised eight Nissen huts on the site of an army camp. The prison was divided into compounds...
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    HMS Temeraire (1798) (category 1798 ships)
    from shore batteries. The ship returned to Britain in 1813 for repairs, but was laid up. She was converted to a prison ship and moored in the River Tamar...
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  • without charge or trial at Long Kesh prison camp, Magilligan prison camp and on board the Maidstone Prison Ship. The Barleycorn Live at the Embankment...
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    Abel Magwitch. Great Expectations is full of extreme imagery—poverty, prison ships and chains, and fights to the death—and has a colourful cast of characters...
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