Corrections Facilities

nia; Lompoc, California; Marion, Illinois; Terre Haute, Indiana

U.S. Bureau of Prisons institutions for juvenile and youth

offenders Ashland, Ken- tucky; Englewood, Colorado; Morgantown, West Virginia

U.S. Community Treatment

Centers halfway houses (see Community Treatment Centers) USDB U.S. Disciplinary Bar- racks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, which holds Air Force, Army, and Marine Corps prisoners whose sentences include six months or more of confinement and/or a punitive discharge

U.S. Department of Justice

administers the Board of Im- migration Appeals, Bureau of Prisons, Civil Division, Civil Rights Division, Criminal Di- vision, Drug Enforcement Administration, Federal Bu- reau of Investigation, Immi- gration and Naturalization Service, Justice Management Division, Land and Natural Resources Division, Office of Legislative Affairs, Office of Public Affairs, Pardon Attor- ney, Tax Division, U.S. Mar- shals Service, U.S. Parole Di- vision

USDJ U.S. (United States) De- partment of Justice (see entry)

U.S. Eighth Army Confine-

ment Facility in Korea USEP United States Escapee Program Usk HM Borstal at Usk in En- gland U.S. Marshals Service main- tains custody of federal prisoners, from the time of their arrest to their commitment or release, and transports federal prisoners pursuant to lawful writs and direction from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons

USMC United States Marine Corps (correctional facilities in Albany, Georgia; Camp Smedley D. Butler in Oki- nawa; Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Camp Pendelton, California; Parris Island, South Carolina; Quantico, Virginia)

USMS U.S. (United States)

Marshals Service (see entry) USN United States Navy USN Brigs correctional centers

and detention facilities brigs in naval parlance—are operated in or close to port cities, with the exception of a naval air station in Millington, Ten- nessee; seaport brigs include: Agaña, Guam; Charleston, South Carolina; Corpus Christi, Texas; Great Lakes, Illinois; Guantanamo, Cuba; Jacksonville, Florida; Long Beach, California; New Lon- don, Connecticut; Newport, Rhode Island; Norfolk, Vir- ginia; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Pensacola, Florida; Philadel- p h i a , P e n n s y l va n i a ; Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico; Rota, Spain; San Diego, California; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washing- ton; Subic Bay, Philippines; Yokosuka, Japan

USNCC U.S. Naval Correc-

tion Center USP United States Penitentiary USPB United States Parole

Board USPC U.S. Parole Commis-

sion (formerly USPB) USPD U.S. Parole Division of

the Department of Justice U.S. Penitentiaries A t l a n t a ,

Georgia; Leavenworth, Kan- sas; Lewisburg, Pennsylva- nia; Lompoc, California; Marion, Illinois; Terre Haute, Indiana

USPP U.S. Probation and Pa-

role USPS United States peniten-

tiaries Utah jails the state’s 29 coun-

ties have lockups; Salt Lake City has additional facilities

Utah State Prison at Draper Utica upstate New York prison Utrecht Netherlands prison

clinic providing psychologi- cal treatment and observation

VAC (see Voluntary Action Center) Vacaresti Romanian prison;

formerly a monastery on the outskirts of Bucharest

vacationing near Chappaqua

doing time in Sing Sing

Vaca Valley Star p r i s o n newspaper published by inmates in Vacaville, California

Vacaville California Medical Facility at Vacaville, psychi- atric prison opened in 1955 after moving from Terminal Island

VACRP Victorian Association for the Care and Resettlement of Prisoners

VACs Voluntary Action Cen- ters Vaduz (see Liechtenstein) Valdosta Georgia site of the Lowndes Correctional Insti- tution

Valencia (see Spain and Vene- zuela) Valetta (see Malta) Valhalla Westchester County

Penitentiary at Valhalla, New York

Valpo Valparaiso, Chile, jail Val Verde County Clink nick-

name for the Val Verde County Jail in Del Rio, Texas

Vancoo Vancouver, British Columbia (or Vancouver, Washington) or their jails

Vandalia Correctional Cen-

ter in Vandalia, Illinois Van Diemen’s Land f o r m e r name of Tasmania and ge- neric name for the great Aus- tralian penal settlement

Vanier Va n i e r C e n t r e f o r Women at Brampton, Ontario Vanuatu the old HM Gaol or Maison reflects its colonial past

VCA Virginia Correctional Association Vega Alta Industrial School for Women at Vega Alta, Pu- erto Rico

Vegas Las Vegas, Nevada, jail Vehicle City Flint, Michigan’s

jail Venezuela Caracas and cities such as Barquisimeto, La Guaira, Maracaibo, and Va- lencia have Hispanic-type penal facilities

Ventura Ventura County jail between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California

Ventura Reception Center and

Clinic at Camarillo, Cali- fornia

Ventura School for Girls a t Camarillo, California

Corrections Facilities

Vergennes the Weeks School

Visalia Tulare County jail in for delinquent and unmanage-

Vieux Carre ( F r e n c h — O l d

central California able convicts at Vergennes,

Square)—French Quarter of

Vista town near San Diego, Vermont

New Orleans, Louisiana or its

California or the county de- Vermillionville L a fa y e t t e ,

lockup

Vila (see Vanuatu) tention facility there Louisiana’s former name and

viuva alegre ( P o r t u g u e s e — that of its jail

Vila dos Remédios (Portu-

guese—Town of Repara-

merry widow)—prison van

Vermont Correctional Facili-

viuva-alegre ( B r a z i l i a n ties in Burlington, Rutland,

tion)—Brazilian settlement

slang—prison van) St Albans, St Johnsbury,

for ex-convicts on the isolated

Vladimir medium-security Windsor, and Woodstock

island of Fernando de No-

prison halfway between Vermont lockups 14 counties

ronha in the Atlantic Ocean

Gorki and Moscow have jails

Villa Devoto A rg e n t i n i a n

Vladivostok transit prison port Vernichtungslager ( G e r-

prison in the Devoto section

on the Pacific coast of far m a n — ex t e r m i n a t i o n

of Buenos Aires

Eastern Russia camp)—concentration camp

Villahermosa prison in Villa-

voiture cellulaire ( F r e n c h — of the type built and operated

hermosa, capital of the Mex-

celled vehicle)—prison van by German Nazis during

ican state of Tabasco

Voluntary Action Center d e - World War Il

Villamil Ecuador’s former pe-

nal colony on the south coast

vice for using the skills of

Vero Beach Florida site of the persons convicted for minor

of Isabela Island in the Gal-

crimes instead of putting Indian River Correctional In-

apagos Islands, where con-

them in prisons stitution for first-felony of-

victs serving life sentences

Volunteers in Probation pub- fenders under 20 years of age

were segregated with their

lishes VIP Examiner quarterly Vesterfangsel ( D a n i s h —

families

and books about probation Westem Jail)—Copenhagen

Vince Saint Vincent Island in

Voyvodina (see Yugoslavia) prison

the Windward Islands of the

VPCP Volunteer Probation vettura cellulare ( I t a l i a n —

Lesser Antilles or its jail

Counseling Program celled vehicle)—prison van

Vincennes French prison noto-

Vridsloesellille Danish state vic(s) convict(s)

rious for its many famous in-

mates dating back to the 14th

prison noted for its programs

victims of the metal age

for reducing recidivism older prisoners complain they

century, when it was a castle

Vulcano southernmost island have silver in their hair, gold

and dungeon

Vinh (see Vietnam) in the Liparis off the coast of in their teeth, rust in their

Sicily where it has served guts, steel around their cells,

ViP (VIP) (see Volunteers in

since Roman antiquity as a and lead in their asses

Probation)

place of penal exile Victoria British Columbia lo-

Virginia State Department of

Wacol H M P r i s o n Wa c o l cation of the William Head

Corrections consists of the

(Queensland, Australia— Institution; La Victoria (Santo

Division of Adult Correc-

sometimes called the Bane of Domingo city prison, Domin-

tional Services and the Divi-

Brisbane ican Republic); Victoria Re-

sion of Youth and Community

Services; these, in turn, are

Wade Correctional Center

ception Centre (Old Bailey

divided into regions and

in Haynesville, Louisiana

Wailuki port city on Maui Is- chelles)

Road, Hong Kong); (see Sey- within each there are correc-

land, Hawaii, where the Maui Victor Verster C a p e Tow n ,

tional centers and units as

well as halfway houses, learn-

Community Correctional

South Africa prison Center is located

ing centers, and work-release

units scattered throughout the

Vienna Correctional Center

Wakefield jails in Wakefield,

Massachusetts, Michigan, or in Vienna, Illinois

Tidewater State

Rhode Island Vientiane (see Laos)

Virginia Correctional Center

for Women in Goochland

Walden Correctional Institu-

Vietnam s o u t h e a s t A s i a n

tion in Columbia, South country formerly held by the

Virginia jails the state’s 96

Carolina French from 1858 to 1954

counties, and its many inde-

Wales Wisconsin site of the and by the Japanese during

pendent cities, have lockups

Ethan Allen School; (see World War II; penal facilities

Virginia State Penitentiary

United Kingdom and individ- built by the French and the

in Richmond

ual entries) Japanese are still used in Ho

Virgin Islands jail lockup on

walk to be acquitted; to walk Chi Minh City (formerly

the waterfront of Charlotte

out of prison Saigon) as well as in Hanoi,

Amalie on the island of St Th-

omas; jail occupies an old fort

Walker Correctional Institu-

Haiphong, Da Nang, Hue,

tion in Rock Spring, Geor- Nha Trang, and Vinh

built in Danish times when

the islands were settled

gia

Corrections Facilities

wall firing wall (place of exe-

Wellington Wellington Prison, cution by a firing squad)

Washington State Special

Wellington, New Zealand Walla Walla Wa s h i n g t o n

Offender Center in Mon-

West Concord s i t e o f t h e State Penitentiary at Walla

roe

Massachusetts Correctional Walla

watchhouse police station; po-

Institution Wallkill Wallkill Correctional

lice station lockup

Westerbork Dutch site of a Facility at Wallkill, New York

Wateree River Correctional

Nazi concentration camp dur- Wallows Walla Walla, Wash-

Institution i n R e m b e r t ,

ing World War II ington, jail

South Carolina

Western Hong Kong’s West- Wall-Wall nickname for the

Watergate Hilton prisoners’

ern Street Police Station and Washington State Peniten-

nickname for the District of

lockup tiary at Walla Walla

Columbia jail in Washington,

DC Western Europe’s Largest Walnut Street Philadelphia’s

Prison Fleury Mergois on oldest jail built in 1790; in-

Watkins Pre-Release Center

the outskirts of Paris mates were subjected to soli-

in Columbia, South Carolina

Waukegan Lake County, Illi-

Western State Penitentiary

in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, association with other prison-

tary confinement to prevent

nois, jail

replaced by the State Correc- ers and to promote reflection

Waupon Wisconsin site of the

tional Institution and Correc- and self-reform

Dodge Correctional Institu-

tional Diagnostic and Classi- Walton Liverpool, England’s

tion and the Waupon Correc-

fication Center Walton Prison

tional Institution

Waycross Georgia location of

Westfield Westfield Correc-

tional Center in Westfield, In- Wanchai Hong Kong’s Wan-

Walvis Bay (see Namibia) the Ware Correctional Institu-

diana chai Police Station and

Westfield Farm New York Re- lockup

tion

Waymart Pennsylvania Cor-

formatory for Women Wandsworth prison in Wands-

West Palm Beach Pa l m worth southwest of London

rections Department prison

Beach County jail warden prison administrator

northeast of Carbondale

Wayne Wayne County Jail in

Detroit, Michigan

West Sam Western Samoa jail

Ware Correctional Institu-

West Street Federal Detention tion (see Waycross) in Goldsboro, North Carolina Center on New York City’s waterfront in past years Warkworth Institution i n

Wayne Correctional Center

Westville Westville Correc- Campbellford, Ontario

for convicts needing psychi-

atric care

Warrensville Heights O h i o

Wayne Correctional Institu-

tional Center in Indiana

tion (see

West Virginia Industrial

site of the Cuyahoga Hills Odum) School for Boys in Grafton Boys School

WCA Wackenhut Corrections

West Virginia Industrial

School for Girls in Salem Wartburg Tennessee site of

Warsaw (see Poland) Corporator (of private jails);

West Virginia jails 55 coun- the Morgan County Regional

Washington Correctional As-

ties have lockups; there is also Correctional Facility

sociation; Western Correc- tional Association; Wisconsin

a city jail in Charleston

Washington Corrections Cen- West Virginia Penitentiary

Correctional Association;

ter in Shelton, Washington,

Women’s Correctional Associ-

which serves as a reception

ation

in Moundsville

West Virginia State Prison for

and diagnostic center and of-

Women in Pence Springs fers a reformatory-type edu-

WCS Wisconsin Correctional

Wetherby H M B o r s t a l a t cational program

Service (in Milwaukee)

Wetherby in Yorkshire, En- Washington lockups 39 coun-

WCSC World Correctional

gland ties have jails; Seattle and

Service Center (q.v.)

Wethersfield C o n n e c t i c u t Tacoma have extra facilities

WDC Women’s Detention

Center

State Prison at Wethersfield

Washington State Funnypark

wets wetbacks; undocumented Washington State Prison near

Weeks School at Vergennes,

aliens who may get their Walla Walla

Vermont

Weisswasser forced-labor sub-

backs wet crossing the Rio

Washington State Penitentiary

Grande to enter the United in Monroe provides all de-

camp operated by the Nazis

States and avoid immigration grees of security for male fel-

during their occupation of

officials ons

Czechoslovakia

Welfare Security Program

Wha Wha Wha Wha Prison

Washington State Penitentiary

near Gwelo, Zimbabwe in Walla Walla holding fel-

guarantees safety of prisoners

WHD Women’s House of De- ons 16 years of age and up in

who provide useful informa-

tention (New York City) all levels of custody

tion to prison authorities

Wellingborough HM Borstal

Wheeling Ohio County’s seat

Washington State Reforma-

in West Virginia; its jail is re- tory in Monroe

a t We l l i n g b o r o u g h i n

Northamptonshire, England

ferred to as Wheeling

Corrections Facilities

Whitehorse Whitehorse Cor-

they sewed mailbags; in the rectional Centre in Canada

witness protection U.S. Mar-

United States, a slang name White Street M a n h a t t a n

shals protect witnesses whose

for any prison House of Detention for Men

lives and those of their fami-

Work Release Program reha- at 125 White Street in New

lies are jeopardized by their

bilitation plan whereby con- York City

testimony

victs work outside of prison Wichita Sedgwick County jail

Witzwil Swiss prison farm

during the last part of their in Kansas

without walls in the town of

Witzwil

term and receive the same pay

Wilder Youth Development

as other workers Center in Somerville, Ten-

Women’s Correctional Admis-

Work Training Facility Loui- nessee

sion Center in Columbus,

siana has two—one in New Wilingili penal settlement on

Ohio

Women’s Correctional Cen-

Orleans and the other in

Pineville an Indian Ocean atoll of the

Worland site of the Wyoming Maldive Islands

ter in Columbia, South

Industrial Institute Wilkes-Barre n o r t h e a s t e r n

Carolina

Women’s Correctional Institu-

tion Claymont, Delaware’s

World Correctional Service

Pennsylvania city and seat of Center Chicago-based in- Luzerne County where in-

penal facility

formation clearinghouse

mates refer to the jail as

Women’s Division c u r r e n t

World’s Freest and Smallest

Jail San Marino’s hilltop William Head Institution i n

Wilkes-Barre

name for the Rhode Island

lockup, near Rimini, Italy Victoria, British Columbia

Training School for Girls in

uses a converted monastery to Wilmas (Mexican-American-

Cranston

hold its prisoners who, if so- ism—Wilmington, Califor-

Women’s Prison Association

ber, are allowed to work in nia)—nickname for the peni-

New York City-based service

town providing they keep out tentiary on Terminal Island in

agency for prisoners; pub-

of bars, restaurants, and other Los Angeles Harbor

lishes A Study in Neglect

public places and avoid meet- Wilmington Delaware site of

about the plight of women in

ing with one another Bridge House for boys and

prison

Women’s Reformatory o ffi -

World’s Largest Prison

Kharkhov in the Ukraine county jail, the Ferris School

cially The Women’s-Refor-

where more than 40,000 pris- for male delinquents, the Pre-

girls in detention status, the

matory, in Rockwell City,

oners have been incarcerated Trial Annex with maximum

Iowa

at one time, according to the and medium-security cells,

Women’s Ward O k l a h o m a

Guiness Book of World the Plummer (work-release)

State Penitentiary at McAl-

Records Center

ester

Woodbourne Wo o d b o u r n e

World’s Largest Walled

Correctional Facility at

Prison Southern Michigan

Prison spanning 54 acres (22 Windsor Correctional Facility

Windhoek (see Namibia)

Woodbourne, New York

in Windsor, Vermont

Woodburn Oregon site of the

hectares)

Winnipeg Manitoban site of Prison (see Most Gigantic the Stony Mountain Institu-

MacLaren School for juve-

World’s Most Gigantic

Prison in the World) tion Winson Green p r i s o n n e a r

nile-court commitments

Wormwood Scrubs E n g l i s h Birmingham, England

Woods Haven-Kruse School

for Girls at Claymont, Del-

aware

prison for young male offenders in the West London Sta-

Winston-Salem Winston-Sa-

dium area lem, North Carolina, the seat

Woodstock Correctional Fa-

WPA (see Women’s Prison As- of Forsyth County with its jail

cility in Woodstock, Vermont

sociation) wired addicted; electrocuted

Wood Street Counter one of

the most notorious of Lon-

WPA & H Women’s Prison

don’s prisons in Elizabethan

Wisconsin Home for Women

Association and Home

near Fond du Lac Wroclaw (see Poland)

times although the Clink,

Wisconsin jails 72 counties WRP (see Work Release Pro-

Newgate, and Fleet did not

provide prisons, Milwaukee gram)

lag far behind in inhumane

Wyantskill Wyantskill Center has local as well as county

practices

for Girls at Wyantskill, New jails

Workers’ Paradise d e r i s ive

nickname applied to the com-

York

Wisconsin School for Girls

Wyndham Wy n d h a m R e - in the south-central part of the

munist-controlled USSR

gional Prison (Western Aus- state

workhouse originally a prison

tralia) Witbank South African prison

where inmates had to work if

they wanted to eat; in Great

Wynne Unit in Huntsville,

Texas holds felons in maxi- of Pretoria in the Transvaal

65 miles (105 kilometers) east

Britain, they picked oakum

used for caulking ships or

mum custody

Corrections Facilities

Wyoming Girls School i n

such as Hookstown, James Sheridan

Yokosuka Japan’s naval base

Creek, and Whitehaven hold Wyoming Honor Farm i n

and lockup in Tokyo Bay

delinquents from 15 to 18 Riverton, maintained by its

south of Yokohama; U.S.

years of age inmates in minimum security

Navy Fleet Activities Brig in

Youthful Offender Unit Wyoming Industrial Institute

Yokosuka; Yokosuka Prison

holds offenders under age 25 in Worland for 10- to 21-

on Japan’s Honshu Island

in close security at Hardwick, year-old delinquents

Yokuska (see Yokosuka)

Georgia Wyoming lockups t h e s t a t e

York community west of Lin-

coln, Nebraska and site of the

Youth Reception and Correc-

has 23 counties and jails;

tion Center in Yardville, Cheyenne has city and county

Nebraska Center for Women

New Jersey detention facilities

YOU Youthful Offender Unit

Youth Services Center a t Wyoming School for Girls i n

young-adult penal institutions

Saint Anthony, Idaho the north-central part of the

of the U.S. Bureau of Pris-

state holds delinquents from Youth Studies Center Phila-

ons El Reno, Oklahoma;

18 to 21 years of age delphia, Pennsylvania’s juve-

Lompoc, California; Milan,

Michigan; Oxford, Wiscon-

nile correctional facility

Yps Ypsilanti, Michigan, jail Wyoming Womens Center i n

Wyoming State Penitentiary

sin; Petersburg, Virginia;

in Rawlins

Ypsilanti Michigan city con- Evanston

Seagoville, Texas; Tallahas-

taining the Huron Valley x’d executed

see, Florida

young horse prisoner’s name

Men’s Facility and the Huron Xining capital of China’s

for roast beef

Valley Women’s Facility Qinghai province is notorious

Youngs Youngstown, Ohio,

YSA Youth Services Adminis- for its forced labor camps

jail

tration (District of Columbia) Xochi Xochimilco, Mexico, or

young stir boy’s reformatory

YTPM Yu m a Te r r i t o r i a l its lockup

Youth and Correctional

Prison Museum YACA (see Youth and Correc-

Agency combines Califor-

YTS Youth Training School tional Agency)

nia’s Board of Prison Terms,

Yugoslavia most of the prisons Yakima Yakima County Jail in

California Youth Authority,

recall the Austro-Hungarian Yakima, Washington

Correctional Industries Com-

Empire Yaounde (see Cameroon)

mission, Department of Cor-

Yuma Arizona site of the Ter- yard prison yard

rections, Institutional Review

ritorial Prison built in 1867, Yard Scotland Yard, London

Board, Narcotic Addict Eval-

now a museum yardbird convict; ex-convict;

uation Authority, and Youth-

ful Offender Control Board

Yuma Territorial Prison State

Historic Park open daily yard bull prison guard; rail-

jailbird; prisoner

youth and juvenile penal insti-

from 8:30 to 5:30 on the road detective; railroad-yard

tutions of the U.S. Bureau of

banks of the Colorado River policeman

Prisons A s h l a n d , Ke n -

in Yuma, Arizona Yardville New Jersey town

tucky; Englewood, Colorado;

Zacatecas prison in Zacatecas, containing the Youth Recep-

Morgantown, West Virginia

Mexico tion and Correction Center

Youth Center at Atchison f o r

delinquent boys from 13 to 1 Zag Zagreb, Yugoslavia, jail Yaren (see Nauru)

Yugoslavia) YCA (see Youth and Correc-

15 / 2 years of age

Zagreb (see

Zaire former name of Repub- YCC Youth Correctional Center

Youth Center at Topeka for

lic of Congo (see entry) YCI Youth Correctional Institu-

tional Agency)

juvenile delinquents in Kansas

Youth Correctional Institu-

zak zaklyuchenny (Russian— tion (Bordentown, New Jersey)

tions in New Jersey—one at

prisoner) YDI (see Youth Development

Annadale, the other at Bor-

Zambia HM Gaol-type struc- Incorporated)

dentown

Youth Development Center

tures contain its convicts

Yellowknife Correctional Cen-

Zambo Zamboanga, Mind- tre in the capital of the Ca-

in Kearney, Nebraska

anao, Philippines, jail nadian Northwest Territories

Youth Development Centers

Zanzi Zanzibar, Tanzania, jail Yemen has penal facilities

throughout Pennsylvania at

Zaragoza Zaragoza, Chihua- built when the Turks ruled all

locations such as Bensalem

hua, jail (see Spain) Arabia before the end of the

Heights, Loysville, New Cas-

tle, Waynesburg

Zenith City of the Unsalted

Seas Duluth, Minnesota, jail YGC Youth Guidance Center

World War I

Youth Development Inc juve-

zenkamono (Japanese—jail- (San Francisco)

nile education and rehabilita-

birds; tramps)—the most de- Yoko Yokohama, Japan, jail,

tion program

spised elements of Japanese lockup, and prison

Youth Forestry Camp i n

society; usually segregated Yokohama (see Japan’s pris-

Custer, South Dakota for of-

into run-down sections of ons)

fenders from 15 to 21 years

of age; Pennsylvania places

cities

Corrections Facilities

Zephyrhills Zephyrhills Cor-

Zurich (see Switzerland) rectional Institution at

Zimbabwe capital city, Harare

Zwodau forced-labor subcamp Zephyrhills, Florida

(formerly Salisbury), and Bu-

operated by the Germans dur- Zero Route (see La Route

lawayo have penal facilities

ing their occupation of Czech- Zero)

superior to many on the Afri-

oslovakia in World War II Zimb Zimbabwe (formerly

can continent

zoo police station and its lockup

Rhodesia) or its jails or pris-

Zuchthaus d a s Z u ch t h a u s

ons built by the British and

(German—penitentiary;

South Africans

prison)

Currencies of the World

Corrections Facilities