Connor Correctional Center
Connor Correctional Center
in Hominy, Oklahoma con(s) convict(s) Constantine (see Algeria) Constanza (see Romania) convict goods things produced
by convict labor vehicle li- cense plates, mail sacks, school benches, etc.)
convict labor work performed
by prisoners as part of their program of rehabilitation (public works such as ecology conservation, farming, road building, vehicle registration, etc.)
convict(s) convicted felon(s)
serving a prison term convict ships (plying between
Britain and ports in New South Wales and Van Die- men’s Land in the late 18th and early 19th centuries) Ab- oukir, Active, Admiral Bar- rington, Admiral Gambier Adrian, Albemarle, Albion, Alexander Alibi, Almorah, America, Ann, Ann and Ame- lia, Anson, Arab, Asia, Asi- atic, Atlantic, Atlas, Atwick, Augusta Jessie, Aurora, Bar- daster Baring, Barossa, Ba- tavia, Bellona, Bengal Mer- chant, Blenheim, Britannia, Bussorah Merchant, Cadet, Calcutta, Canada, Castle Forbes, Chapman, Charlotte, Circassian, Commodore Hayes, Coromandel, Count- ess of Harcourt, Cressy, Dromedary, Earl Cornwallis, Earl Grey, Earl St Vincent, Eden, Edward, Egyptian, Eliza, Elizabeth, Elizabeth and Henry, Elphinstone, Emma Eugenia, Emily, Em- peror Alexander, Eolus, Equestrian, Experiment, Fanny, Fortune, Frances Charlotte, Friendship, Gan- ges, General Hewart, Gen- eral Stewart, Gilbert Hender- s o n , G i l m o re, G l a t t o n , Grenada, Guildford, Har- mony, Hector, Henry, Henry Porcher Hillsborough, Hin-
dostan, Hyderabad, Indefati- gable, Indian, Indispensable, Isabella, Jane, John, John Barry, John Brewer John Re- nwick, Kinnear Lady Hare- wood, Lady Juliana, Lady of the Lake, Lady Rowena, Lloyds, Lord Auckland, Lord Lyndoch, Lord William Ben- tinck, Margaret, Maria, Ma- ria Soames, Marion, Mar- mion, Marquis of Hastings, Marquis of Huntley, Mary Anne, Medina, Mexborough, Minerva, Minorca, Moffat, Morley, Navarino, Neptune, New Grove, Norfolk, North Briton, Ocean, Orator, Orien- tal Queen, Pestonjee Bo- manjee, Pitt, Portland, Prince Regent, Rajah, Ratcliffe, Re- covery, Rodney, Royal Admi- ral, Royal Charlotte, Run- n y m e d e , S t Vi n c e n t , Scarborough, Second Fleet, Sidmouth, Sir Godfrey Web- ster Sir Robert Peel, Sir Rob- ert Seppings, Sir William Be- nsley, Somerset, Southworth, Speke, Stakesby, Surprize, Surrey, Susan, Sydney Cove, Tasmania, Tenasserim, Tor- toise, Tottenham, Triton, Wa- terloo, Waverley, Westmor- l a n d , Wi l l i a m Ja rd i n e , William Miles, Woodford, etc., including vessels with names such as Nile, Perseus, Persia
con wise convict who knows what’s going on in the prison including illicit operations
Cook County covering the en- tire area of Chicago, Illinois has a Department of Correc- tions with six divisions; the Cook County Jail; the old House of Correction; the Women’s Division; the Men’s Correctional Center; an in- take and reception facility; the Training Academy
cooler(s) b r i g ( s ) , g u a r d - house(s), jail(s), lockup(s) coop(s) prison(s) Coos Coos County Correc-
tional Facility, Coos Bay, Or- egon
cop a broom leave in a hurry cop a drill leave at a normal
walking pace so as not to at- tract the attention of guards
Corrections Facilities
cop a heel e s c a p e f r o m
CPPCA California Probation, law-enforcement officers or
Correctional Service Federa-
Parole, and Correctional As- from correctional facilities
tion American wing of the
sociation cop a moke escape from a jail,
International Prisoners Aid
CPS Canadian Penitentiary prison, or other facility
Association
Service cop a sneak escape from con-
correctional training school
CPSM Colonial Prison Ser- finement
reformatory
vice Medal (British decora- Copenhagen Denmark’s mod-
Correction Camp Program
tion) ern prison noted for its design
for male and female felons
Cracow (see Poland) insuring inmates the maxi-
housed at Grass Lake, Mich-
Cracow/Plaszow concentra- mum of light and air
igan
tion camp holding many cop house(s) police station(s)
Correction Division Release
forced laborers during World or lockup(s)
Center in Salem, Oregon
War II Copper John Auburn Prison’s
Correction and Rehabilitation
Squadron U.S. Air Force at
Cradle of the Penitentiary
copper shop police station
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania’s and lockup
nickname
Lowry Air Force Base, Colo-
Walnut Street Jail built in the Cordoba (see Argentina)
rado
corrections caseload number
late 1700s and providing con-
Corinto Nicaragua’s seaport gregate as well as individual
of clients registered with a
city with a jail cells and workhouses
correctional agency or agent
cranky hatch(es) cell(s) re- Cornton Vale Scottish prison
during a specified time limit
served for mentally deranged Corona California Rehabilita-
Cork (see Irish prisons)
corrective labor camp c o m -
prisoner(s) tion Center at Corona
munist euphemism for
Cranston Rhode Island city corralón Mexican-Spanish—
forced-labor camp
containing eleven penal facil- corral)—detention camp
Corrective Services all of the
ities where illegal entrants await
gaols and prisons in Austra-
lia’s New South Wales are
crash escape from jail or deportation
managed by the Department
prison corre correccional (Mexican-
of Corrective Services in Syd-
crazy alley(s) cell block(s) re- Americanism—correctional
ney
served for the insane institution, penitentiary, re-
CO(s) Correction Officer(s);
crazy hospital(s) psychiatric formatory)
Correctional Officer(s)
ward(s) correctional agency federal,
Costa Rica Central American
CRD Civil Rights Division, state, or local criminal-justice
country with its principal
U.S, Department of Justice agency charged with the in-
prison in the capital city of
creative conflict demonstra- vestigation, intake screening,
San José; smaller ones are in
tion or riot supervision, custody, con-
the ports—Limón on the Car-
creative sentence s e n t e n c e finement, or treatment of ad-
ibbean and Puntarenas on the
created to fit the crime (for judicated or alleged offenders
Pacific
Coti Martinez clandestine Ar-
example, making graffiti art-
Correctional Center for
ists clean the walls they have Women in Raleigh, North
gentine prison’s pseudonym
defaced) Carolina
count prison population inven-
crime playwright George Ber- Correctional Clinic U.S. Bu-
tory
nard Shaw defines crime in reau of Prisons Correctional
Counterpoint bimonthly publi-
his play Man and Superman, Clinic in New York City
cation of the National Juve-
nile Detention Association
"Crime is only the retail de-
correctional custody facility
partment of what, in whole- brig, jail, penitentiary, prison,
country club minimum-secu-
sale, we call penal law." reformatory
rity prison
county cooler(s) county-sup-
crimeless society T h o m a s
correctional custody unit
Paine, author of The Age of U.S. naval euphemism for a
ported mental hospital(s) fre-
Reason and The Rights of ship’s brig or lockup
quently confining the crimi-
nally insane
Man, wrote: “When it shall be
Correctional Development
said of any country in the Centre maximum-security
county hotel(s) county jail(s)
world, ’My poor are happy; facility in Laval, Québec
Cowansville C owa n s v i l l e
Institution holding young
neither ignorance nor distress
Correctional Education Asso-
is to be found among them; ciation publishes quarterly
offenders in Cowansville,
my jails are empty of prison- Journal of Correctional Edu-
Québec
ers, my streets of beggars; the cation
Coxsackie Coxsackie Correc-
aged are not in want; the correctional institution long-
tional Facility (medium-secu-
taxes are not oppressive; the term confinement facility
rity prison in Coxsackie, New
rational world is my friend, correctional officer(s) prison
York)
because I am a friend of its guard(s); prison warden(s)
CPA Connecticut Prison Asso-
ciation
happiness—when these
Corrections Facilities
things can be said, then may
Danbury Federal Correctional that country boast of its con-
Culiacan prison in Culiacan,
Institution at Danbury, Con- stitution and its government.”
capital city of the Mexican
necticut criminoso inveterado (Portu-
state of Sinaloa
dance death by hanging guese—inveterate crim-
Cummins Cummins Prison
dance hall cell or hallway inal)—jailbird
Farm (facility of the Arkansas
leading to an execution cham- CRMT Community Resources
State Penitentiary holding
ber where the condemned Management Team (parole
girls and women convicted of
seems to dance when the cur- and probation)
illegal drug use and prostitu-
rent is applied to the electric Croatia (see Yugoslavia)
tion); Cummins Unit in
chair Crockett C r o c ke t t S t a t e
Grady, Arkansas
dance of death hanging School for Girls at Crockett,
Custer South Dakota location
dance on air death by hanging Texas
of the Youth Forestry Camp
dangerous aliens C a n a d i a n cross-bar hotel(s) j a i l ( s ) o r
custodial officer(s) p r i s o n
government designation of prison(s)
guard(s)
Japanese-Canadians in the Cross City Cross City Correc-
Cux Cuxhaven, Germany or its
post-Pearl-Harbor period tional Institution offers aca-
jail
Dannemora Clinton Correc- demic and vocational training
Cuyahoga Cuyahoga County
tional Facility at Dannemora, Crown Point I n d i a n a j a i l
Juvenile Detention Home in
New York south of Gary
Cleveland, Ohio
CYC Colorado Youth Center at
Danville Youth Development
CRS Correction and Rehabili-
Center s o u t h w e s t o f tation Squadron (U.S. Air
Denver
Lexington, Kentucky with Force Base at Lowry Air
Cyprus island republic whose
special units for male delin- Force Base, Colorado)
capital, Nicosia, has an old
Turkish prison and a nearby
quents
cruel and unusual punish-
darbies handcuffs ment being boiled in oil, be-
camp site where Jews were
Dar-es-Salaam (see Tanzania) ing set afire, ducking, mutilat-
detained to keep them out of
Darrington Unit Texas penal ing, pilloring, and whipping
Palestine from 1945 to 1948
facility holding maximum- were common practices in a
CZ Pen Canal Zone Peniten-
security felons within its con- number of countries; as re-
tiary at Gamboa
fines in Rosharon cently as the mid-1920s whip-
DAC Department of Adult
Dartmoor Her (His) Majesty’s ping was a punishment ap-
Corrections (Alaska)
prison near Princetown and plied publicly in Dover,
Dacca principal prison of Ban-
the Dartmoor Forest of south- Delaware
gladesh in the capital city of
west England Crumlin Crumlin Road Prison
Dacca
Davao port city of Mindanao in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Dachau ( O l d G e r m a n —
in the Philippines and nick- Crumlin Road 14 address and
marsh)—site of a large Nazi
name of its old prison nickname of one of Her Maj-
concentration camp near Mu-
Day Dayton, Ohio or its jails esty’s prison camps outside
nich
and lockups Belfast, Northern Ireland
daddy tank prison cell re-
Daytona Beach Florida site of CSCA Central States Corree-
served for lesbians to keep
the Tomoka Correctional In- tions Association
them from being attacked by
stitution CSD Correctional Services
other prisoners
Dayton Forensic Hospital i n Department; Corrective Ser-
Dade Correctional Center a t
Dayton, Ohio opened in 1980 vices Department
Homestead, Florida offers of-
to give psychiatric help to CSF Correctional Service Fed-
fenders counseling, educa-
mentally ill felons eration
tion, and vocational training
Daytop D a y t o p L o d g e i n CSM Correctional Service of
Dago slang for San Diego,
Staten Island, New York Minnesota (Minneapolis)
California or its jail, lockups,
where male narcotic violators Cuba a cárcel modelo can be
or prison (see Diego)
are offered treatment found in Havana, Santiago de
Dallas Texas county jail; State
db dirt bag (an undocumented Cuba, Camaguey, Matanzas;
Correctional Institution at
Hispanic alien) there is a large penal settle-
Dallas, Pennsylvania
DB Disciplinary Barracks ment on the Isle of Pines
Dalmatia (see Yugoslavia)
dbd death by drugs (execution Cuernavaca prison in Cuema-
Damascus (see Syria)
by lethal injection) vaca, capital of the Mexican
Damon Israeli medium-secu-
dc death cell state of Morelos
rity prison for adult repeat
DC District of Columbia jail in Cueva Pa n a m a n i a n i s l a n d
offenders and Arab juvenile
Washington, DC prison
delinquents from 14 to 20
D of C Department of Correc- cuff(s) handcuff(s)
years old
Da Nang (see Vietnam)
tions; District of Columbia
Corrections Facilities
DCI Donovan Correctional In-
Detroit Wayne County Jail in stitute, jail on Otay Mesa
Democratic Republic of
downtown Detroit, Michigan south of San Diego
Congo penal facilities date
back to the days of colonial
Deuel Vocational Institute
DCJ Dade County Jail in
(see Tracy) downtown Miami, Florida
rule under Belgium
devil’s front porch prison DCS Department of Correc-
Denmark (see Herstedvester
Devil’s Island penal colony in tional Services (Nebraska,
and Ringe); Copenhagen and
French Guiana and its group New York)
Arhus have central prisons
of offshore islands in use as DCWDC District of Columbia
Denver largest city in Colo-
late as 1950 for convicts and Women’s Detention Center
rado and nickname of its pe-
political prisoners serving DEA Drug Enforcement Ad-
nal institutions
De Quincy Louisiana Correc-
lifetime or long-duration sen- tences
ministration
tional and Industrial School at De Quincy in Calcasieu Par-
DHC Detroit House of Correc- Dead Men’s Cove San Diego
tion Police Department headquar-
ish
DHS Department of Health ters and lockup
Descanso Descanso Detention
Services Dear John letter w r i t t e n
Facility near Alpine, Califor-
DIA Department of Institu- communication to a prisoner
nia
tions and Agencies (govern- from a lover or wife inform-
Des Moines Iowa’s county
ing New Jersey’s prison sys- ing him their engagement or
seat, courthouse, and jail of
tem) marriage is over
Polk County; well known for
its role in correctional institu-
Diagnostic and Evaluation
death by injection a massive
Center in Lincoln, Ne- overdose of sodium thiopen-
tion planning
braska holds male felons in tal to stop breathing while pa-
Des Moines Plan innovative
maximum security while un- vulon, a muscle relaxer, and
alternative to building new
der diagnosis and evaluation potassium chloride are added
prisons; less risky convicts
Diagnostic Unit in Huntsville, to stop heartbeat
are steered to programs al-
Texas where all incoming in- death penalty execution
lowing them to help them-
mates are diagnosed and sent death row cell block reserved
selves by working or attend-
to appropriate prisons for prisoners awaiting execu-
ing school under probationary
Diego (Mexican-American tion
supervision
truncation—San Diego)–Cal- decap decapitation
De Soto De Soto Correctional
ifornia border city or its jail, Deerbolt HM Borstal at Deer-
Institution in south-central
Florida
lockups, or prison (see Dago)
Diego Met San Diego Metro- bolt in England
detention legal confinement of
a person subject to criminal
politan Correctional Center
Deerfield Correctional Cen-
(Hispanic appellation) ter in Capron, Virginia
or juvenile court proceedings
die in the hot seat be electro- Deer Lodge site of the Mon-
until commitment to a correc-
cuted tana State Prison
tional facility or release
die of lead poisoning k i l l e d defective delinquent(s) crimi-
detention center jail housing
by lead bullets nally insane person(s)
prisoners awaiting trail
die of throat trouble hanged DeHoCo Detroit House of
detention facility g e n e r i c
term for county farm, deten-
Directory of Juvenile Deten-
tion Homes published by the Delaware (see Claymont, Do-
Correction
tion center, honor farm, jail,
National Juvenile Detention ver, Georgetown, Smyrna,
juvenile hall, road camp,
Association Wilmington)
work camp, etc.
Directory of Prisoners Aid Delaware Correctional Cen-
detention glazing chemically
Agencies published by the ter in Smyrna north of Do-
strengthened and plastically
International Prisoners Aid ver
bonded glass used in place of
Association Delaware jails three counties
bars or walls in modern penal
facilities
Directory of Residential
provide lockups for commu-
Treatment Centers p u b - nities around Wilmington,
detention screening stainless-
lished by the International Dover, and Georgetown
steel screening allowing air,
light, and sound to enter but
Halfway House Association
dirt prisoner’s nickname for Delhi (see Indian prisons)
preventing the entrance of
sugar Delle Stinche F l o r e n t i n e
contraband such as drugs and
dirty towel prison barbershop prison dating from the early
weapons
or beauty parlor 1300s and famous for its ad-
detention windows designed
Dismas House halfway house vanced methods of inmate
to admit air and/or light but to
in St Louis, Missouri handling and segregation
prevent the escape of prison-
District of Columbia site of Del Norte prison site in north-
ers (see detention glazing)
the Central Detention Facil- western California
Detoxification Center ( s e e
Inebriate Reception Center)
ity, and some ill-reputed pris-
Corrections Facilities
ons used during and after the
dossier (French—information Civil War but replaced by
D o C Department of Correc-
file)—usually about a case modern facilities in the Dis-
tion (Arkansas, Connecticut,
history or individual(s) in- trict and in Lorton, Virginia
Delaware, Indiana, Massachu-
setts, North Carolina, Tennes-
volved in some criminal or
District of Columbia lockup
political action the nation’s capital lockup fa-
see); Department of Correc-
do the book serve a life sen- cilities in addition to those of
tions (Arizona, California,
tence federal agencies
District of Columbia, Florida,
do time serve a prison sen- dite (Mexican-Americanism—
Guam, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas,
tence detention hall)—place where
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine,
Douala (see Cameroon) illegal aliens must wait while
Michigan, Minnesota, Missis-
double-ceiling p l a c i n g t wo being investigated
sippi, Missouri, New Jersey,
prisoners in the same cell Division No 1 C h i c a g o ’s
Rhode Island, South Carolina,
Dover Delaware seat of New Cook County Jail
Texas, Vermont, Washington,
Castle County south of Wil- Division No 2 C h i c a g o ’s
West Virginia), Division of
mington; contains the Kent House of Correction
Corrections (Utah, Wisconsin)
Correctional Institution and Divisions No 1 through 6 (see
DOCS Department of Correc-
police-station lockups as well Cook County)
tional Services (New York)
as the county jail; in Kent, En- Dix Dorothea Lynde Dix
Doftana Bucharest’s prison
gland, is HM Borstal in Dover (1802–1887)—American re-
dog detective(s) [see canine
on the Channel former and pioneer in secur-
shamus(es)]
Doha (see Qatar) Down Down Home (Afro-Amer- ing better treatment for the in-
ican slang—federal peniten- sane in asylums, poor houses,
D o I Department of Institu-
tiary in Atlanta, Georgia) and prisons throughout New
tions (Montana); Director of
Down Home (Afro-American England; wrote books for
Institutions (North Dakota);
slang—Manhattan House of children and served as
Division of Institutions
Detention long known as the superintendent of women
(Oklahoma)
Tombs)—in downtown New nurses during the Civil War
Dominica large Windward is-
land; its capital, Roseau, con-
York City
Dixon Correctional Institute
Downstate Downstate Correc- medium-security penal facil-
tains a small gaol built by the
tional Facility at Fishkill, ity in northern Louisiana at
British
New York Jackson
(Afro-American nickname—U.S. Federal eastern Turkey
Dominican Republic prisons
Diyarbakir prison in south-
notorious during the dictator-
Down South
Penitentiary in Atlanta, Geor- U.S. Department of Justice);
ship of Trujillo and before in-
DJ Department of Justice (see
gia) Dozier A r t h u r G D o z i e r Don Jail in County Donegal,
tervention by the U.S. Ma-
rines (see Ciudad Trujillo,
School at Marianna, Florida Northern Ireland; Don Jail in the Don Mills section of To-
Santo Domingo) Don Don Jail in County Done-
gal, Northern Ireland; Don
for delinquents from 12 to 17
years of age ronto, Ontario Djibouti formerly known as
DPA Discharged Prisoners As- sociation (Great Britain) French Somaliland and later
Jail in Don Mills section of
Toronto, Ontario
DPAS Discharged Prisoners’ the French territory of Afars
Donovan Richard J Donovan
Aid Society (Great Britain) and Issas; its old prison at-
CorTectional Facility, Otay
DPs Detention Pens in down- tracts strange characters
Mesa, California
town New York City, also DLPS Department of Law and
D o P Department of Prisons
known as the Manhattan De- Public Safety (New Jersey)
(Nevada)
tention Pens do a bit serve a sentence in jail
DOR Department of Offender
DPS Department of Public do a dime serve a 10-year
Rehabilitation (Georgia)
Safety (American Samoa) prison sentence
Dora nickname for the Nazi
DPSCS Department of Public do a nickel serve a five-year
concentration camp west of
Safety and Correctional Ser- prison term
Leipzig, Germany at Nord-
vices (Maryland) do a pound serve a five-year
hausen
Drake Hall H M P r i s o n a t prison term
Dorandordhausen Nazi con-
Drake Hall, Staffordshire, En- do a quarter serve a 25-year
centration camp west of Leip-
gland prison sentence
zig, Germany
Drancy (see Camp de Drancy) Dobbs School North Carolina
Dorchester Boston Pre-Re-
Draper Draper Correctional penal facility for male and fe-
lease Center in Dorchester,
Center at Elmore, Alabama; male juvenile delinquents up
Massachusetts; Dorchester
Utah State Prison at Draper to 18 years of age, in Kinston
Penitentiary in New Brun-
south of Salt Lake City do bird do time in prison;
swick, Canada; HM Prison at
DRC Department of Rehabili- serve a prison sentence
Dorchester, England
Dorpat (see Tartu)
tation and Correction (Ohio)
Corrections Facilities
dropped in the bucket jailed
East Palatka E a s t Pa l a t k a drowning capital punishment
Durham H M P r i s o n a t
Road Prison southeast of St usually reserved for witches
Durham, England; prison in
Augustine; opened in 1961 and other women accused of
Durham, England; prison in
with programs in alcohol and crime; drowning was replaced
Durham, North Carolina and
drug abuse by beheading and hanging as
in smaller Durhams
East Sutton Park borstal for less equipment was required
Dutchman Correctional Cen-
delinquent girls in Kent, En- Drumheller Drumheller Insti-
ter in Enoree, South Caro-
gland tution in Drumheller, Alberta
lina, holding felons in maxi-
Ebensee Austrian concentra- drunk tank jail cell reserved
mum and minimum security
tion-camp subcamp during for persons arrested while un-
Dwight Dwight Correctional
World War II der the influence of alcohol or
Center west of Kankakee, Illi-
e by i execution by injection other drugs
nois details female felons in
(of air or poison) Dry Tortugas U.S. Military
maximum, medium, and min-
imum security
Echo Glen Children’s Center
(see entry) west of Key West
Prison on one of the Dry Tor-
in Snoqualmie, Washington tugas in the Gulf of Mexico,
DYA Department of the Youth
ECJ Erie County Jail (Buffalo, Dubai (see United Arab Emir-
Authority (California)
DYS Department of Youth Ser-
vices (Alabama); Division of
New York)
ates) Dublin (see Irish prisons)
Youth Services (Arkansas,
Ecole Notre-Dame de Laval
at Laval-des-Rapides in the Dubrolag complex of some
Florida)
Eagle River Alaska Women’s
Province of Québec (this and the following Ecole-type en-
tries are for juvenile reforma- Potmu in the Moldavian Re-
fifteen prison camps close to
Facility next door to the Eagle
tories) public of the USSR
River Correctional Center
Ecole Ste-Agnes M o n t r e a l , Ducato Milanese Milan, It-
east of Anchorage
Québec aly’s old prison
Eagle Springs North Carolina
Ecole Ste Domitille M o n t - Duffy of San Quentin m o -
site of the Samarkand Manor
real, Québec tion picture inspired by three
youth service facility
Ecole Ste Helene c o r r e c - semi-autobiographical books
East Block No 7 address of
tional school in Montreal, by Warden Clinton T Duffy of
Interpol India on Rama
Québec San Quentin Prison in Cali-
Krishna Puram in New Delhi
ECS Episcopal Community fomia where he abolished air-
East County Regional Center
Services (job-entry program less and dungeon-like cells,
El Cajon, California, jail
for ex-offenders) fired guards for cruelty, intro-
Eastern Hong Kong’s Eastern
Ecuador its Andean capital, duced a cafeteria, a newspa-
Police Station (and lockup);
Quito, and its port city, Gua- per written and printed by the
Eastern Correctional Facility
yaquil, have so-called model prisoners, and a night school;
at Napanoch, New York
Eastern New York Correc-
prisons; former penal colony
at Villamil on Isabela Island never deterred murder and
he insisted the death penalty
tional Facility at Napanoch
in the Galápagos has been re- never will
for male juvenile delinquents
placed by the Penitenciario Dumfries Dumfries Young Of-
Litoral, a maximum-security fenders Institution near the
Eastern State Penitentiary in
prison near Guayaquil west coast of Scotland
North Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
Eddyville site of the Kentucky dummy prisoner’s nickname
vania for more than a century
State Penitentiary for bread
but now replaced by the State
Edinburgh prison in Scot- dump truck depressed, slow
Correctional Institution in
Graterford
Eastharn Unit maximum-se-
land’s capital city and its Young Offenders Institution
dungeon underground cell or Edison medicine n i c k n a m e
moving, or torpid prisoner
curity penal facility in Love-
for electroconvulsive shock prison
lady, Texas
treatment Durango prison in Durango,
East Lake A l a b a m a S t a t e
Edmonton Institution m a x i - Mexico; jail in Durango, Col-
Training School for female
mum-security facility in Ed- orado
juvenile delinquents
monton, Alberta Durban (see South Africa)
East London (see South Af-
rica)
education of correctional per-
Durchgangslager (German—
sonnel and jailers ( s e e transit camp)—established in
East Moline East Moline Cor-
Staff Training Centers) German-occupied countries
rectional Center in upper Illi-
EFEC Efforts From Ex-Con- for the transport of Jews and
nois opened in 1980 as a
victs (Washington, DC’s pa- others to concentration camps
minimum-security penal fa-
cility
role program)
Corrections Facilities
Eglin Federal Prison Camp at
Essex Essex County Jail in Eglin Air Force Base in Flor-
El Retén de Catía ( S p a n -
Newark, New Jersey ida
ish—The Remand of
Etcher of Prisons G i a m b a t - Egypt the Arab Republic of
Catía)—Venezuelan house of
tista Piranesi (see Carceri Egypt has penal facilities in
detention in the Catía suburb
d’Invenzione) Cairo, as well as Alexandria,
of Caracas
Ethan Allen School in Wales, Giza, and other cities
El Salvador has a prison in its
Wisconsin serves as a recep- Elazik Turkish prison in the
capital city, San Salvador, and
tion center and training central eastern part of the
smaller ones in its seaports
along the Pacific
school
country Ethiopia’s prisons A d d i s
El Sexto (Spanish—The Sixth
El Cajon El Cajon Detention Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, as
Book of Canonical De-
Facility, El Cajon, California well as Asmara and Massawa
crees)—Lima, Peru prison
have prisons El Centro El Centro Detention
noted for the Easter plays
Eugene Eugene, Oregon or its Center of the Immigration
staged by its inmates
Lane County Jail and Naturalization Service in
Endsville p l a c e c o nv i c t s
dream about when they imag- ine life outside prison
euphemisms of penology
prison or penitentiary became El Chipote ( S p a n i s h — t h e
El Centro, California
reformatory, which became box)—Managua, Nicaragua’s
Enfield Connecticut State
correctional center, and now underground jail beneath a
Prison at Enfield includes a
is called a rehabilitation fa- hill in the center of the capital
prison farm
England (see United Kingdom
cility
Eldora Training School
Eureka Humboldt County medium-security
and individual entries)
Englewood Federal Correc-
courthouse and jail in Cali- juvenile-delinquent facility
fornia southwest of Waterloo, Iowa
tional Institution at Engle-
Evanston Wyoming site of the electrocution m e t h o d o f
wood, Colorado
English nicknames for penal
Johnson Hall Forensic Unit execution in Alabama, Ari-
colonies Andaman Islands,
and the Wyoming Womens zona, Arkansas, Colorado,
Botany Bay, Devil’s Island,
Center Florida, Georgia, Illinois, In-
French Guiana, Lipari Is-
even-handed justice d e m o - diana, Kentucky, Louisiana,
lands, Moreton Bay, New
cratic doctrine advocating Massachusetts, Nebraska,
Caledonia, Norfolk Island,
equal justice for criminals ir- New York, Pennsylvania,
Port Blair, Port Philip, Sibe-
respective of their former po- South Carolina, South Da-
ria, Solovetski Islands, Syd-
sition in society, their race, kota, Tennessee, Vermont,
ney Cove, Tasmania, Van Di-
their religion, or their wealth Virginia
emen’s Land
Evin Evin Prison in Teheran, El Frontón (Spanish—coastal
Enoree South Carolina site of
the Dutchman Correctional
Iran
Évreux maximum-security cliff)—barren island prison of
Institution
prison in the French city of Callao, Peru
Ensenada regional jail in En-
Évreux Elko site of the Nevada Youth
senada, California
EXCEL Ex-offender Coordi- Training Center
Ensisheim French penitentiary
nated Employment Lifeline Ellis Unit maximum-security
near Mulhouse
(Indiana’s parole project) unit complete with a death
Equatorial Guinea Fernando
ex-con(s) ex-convict(s); for- row in Huntsville, Texas
Po island and Rio Muni on the
mer convict(s) el Met (Spanish—the Metro-
nearby West African coast
execution box container hold- politan Correctional Center)
both have old prisons built by
ing a body belt, a hangman’s Elmira Elmira Correctional
the Portuguese
rope, a hood, and restraining Facility in New York State;
ERC Elmira Reception Center
straps for fastening the limbs Elmira Reception Center for
(for male prisoners) at Elm-
of the condemned male prisoners
ira, New York
Execution Dock formerly on El Paso El Paso Detention
escape unlawful departure of a
the muddy foreshore of a Center of the Immigration
lawfully confined person
bend in the Thames at East and Naturalization Service in
Esmeralda barkentine-rigged
Chilean naval-training vessel
Wapping below the Tower
El Paso, Texas Bridge and the Tower of Lon-
used for a short time in 1973
El Pavon (Spanish—the pea- don; at first all convicted pi-
as a prison holding commu-
rates were pegged down at cock)—Guatemala’s largest
nist activists
low water so the incoming prison, near Guatemala City
ESP Eastern State Penitentiary
tide would drown them El Reno Federal Correctional
(Philadelphia)
slowly but in later times they Institution at El Reno, Okla-
Essen concentration-camp
were hanged from a tall gal- homa
Subcamp operated by the Na-
zis during World War II
lows and left to the mercy of
Corrections Facilities
seagulls as they decomposed
Farmingdale Turrell Residen- within the chains suspending
ex-offender(s) f o r m e r o f -
tial Group Center at Farm- them above the river’s reach
fender(s) no longer under the
ingdale, New Jersey execution by injection i n j e c -
jurisdiction of any criminal
Father of Criminology C e - tion of air or poison; less
justice agency
sare Beccaria (1738–1794), complicated and less costly
Ex-offenders in Transit
anthor of Delitte e della Pene than more conventional meth-
(EXIT) M a i n e ’s p a r o l e
(Italian—Crimes and Punish- ods; abbreviated as e by i
project
expunge purge or seal arrest,
ment)—advocated an end to
Execution of Maximilian
capital punishment and wide- Edouard Manet’s painting de-
criminal, or juvenile-delin-
spread prison reform picting the Emperor Maxi-
quent records
Father of Parole Captain Al- milian and his Mexican
expungement legal ablution of
exander Maconochie, the generals standing between a
a criminal’s record made in an
governor of the Norfolk Is- wall and a uniformed firing
effort to assist in rehabilita-
land penal colony from 1840 squad
tion and remove any preju-
dice from the mind of a po-
to 1844
execution methods by states
tential employer
Father of Penitentiary Sci-
electrocution in Alabama, Ar-
ence Jean Jacques Vilain izona, Arkansas, Colorado,
extreme penalty death by exe-
founded the Maison de Force Florida, Georgia, Illinois, In-
cution
built in Ghent in 1773 diana, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Eye Opener inmate publica-
Fayetteville Fayetteville (lo- Massachusetts, Nebraska,
tion of the Oklahoma State
cally called Fitzville), North New York, Pennsylvania,
Prison
Carolina, seat of Cumberland South Carolina, South Da-
Fabrica de Hombres Nuevos
County with its jail kota, Tennessee, Vermont,
(Spanish—Factory of New
FBI Federal Bureau of Investi- Virginia; hanging in Dela-
Men)—Mexico City prison
gation ware, Montana, New Hamp-
constructed to permit pris-
FBP Federal Bureau of Prisons shire, Utah, Washington; le-
oner’s wives to stay overnight
(U.S. Department of Justice thal gas in California,
Fadiffolu Fa d i ff o l u A t o l l
bureau) Maryland, Mississippi, Mis-
(Maldivian island used for the
FCCD Florida Council on souri, Nevada, North Caro-
banishment of law breakers) .
Crime and Delinquency lina, Oregon, Rhode Island,
Fagatoa Lockup Pago Pago
FCF Federal Correctional Fa- Wyoming; lethal intravenous
jail on the island of Tutuila in
cility injection in Idaho, New Mex-
American Samoa
FCI Federal Correctional Insti- ico, Oklahoma, Texas; in
fag factory homosexual-filled
tute of the U.S. Bureau of Utah the prisoner chooses the
prison
Prisons (see Staff Training method of execution or the
Fairbanks Fairbanks Correc-
Centers) sentencing judge decides
tional Center in Alaska (a
FCI(s) Federal Correctional whether execution is by firing
maximum-security facility
Institution(s) squad or hanging
for mate and female felons)
FCIS Foreign Counterintelli- execution pennant small black
Fairfield Solano County court-
gence System (FBI) flag flown over British prisons
house and jail in California
FDH Federal Detention Head- when an execution is taking
Fairfield School for Boys
quarters in Florence, Arizona place
(see Southeastern Ohio Train-
featherbed padded cell execution shed gallows area
ing Center)
Featherstone HM Prison at within a prison
Fairton federal correctional
institution near Bridgeton,
Featherstone, north of
exercise in a cooler climate
Wolverhampton, Stafford- translation of a Soviet euphe-
New Jersey
shire, England mism for forced labor in Si-
Falklands Falkland Islands
capital, Stanley, houses HM
Federal Center for Correc-
tional Research U . S B u - Exeter HM Prison at Exeter in
beria
Gaol
reau of Prisons facility in But- Devonshire, England; orjails
Fängelse ( S w e d i s h —
ner, North Carolina in smaller Exeters in Califor-
Prison)—title of Ingmar
Bergman’s thought-provok-
Federal Correctional Institu-
nia, Illinois, Maine, Missouri,
tions Alderson, West Vir- Nebraska, New Hampshire,
ing motion picture whose En-
ginia; Ashland, Kentucky; Ontario, Pennsylvania, and
glish name is Prison
Bastrop, Texas; Butner, North Rhode Island
Fannie Bay Fannie Bay La-
Carolina; Danbury, Connecti- exile (see banishment)
bour Prison, Fannie Bay, Aus-
cut; El Reno, Oklahoma; En- EXIT Ex-offenders in Transit
tralian Northern Territory
Fargo Fargo, North Dakota or
glewood, Colorado; Fort
Ex-offender Coordinated
its Cass County jail
Worth, Texas; La Tuna,
Employment Lifeline
Texas; Lexington, Kentucky; (EXCEL) Indiana’s parole
farm confinement or correc-
Memphis, Tennessee; Miami, project
tional facility in a rural area;
prison farm
Florida; Milan, Michigan;
Corrections Facilities
Morgantown, West Virginia;
First Halfway House Issac T Otisville, New York; Oxford,
female penal institutions of the
Hooper Home opened in New Wisconsin; Petersburg, Vir-
U.S. Bureau of Prisons
York City in 1845 by the So- ginia; Pleasanton, California;
Alderson, West Virginia;
ciety of Friends—Quakers Ray Brook, New York; Sand-
Pleasanton, California
Ferguson Unit Texas penal fa-
First Nazi Concentration
stone, Michigan; Tallahassee,
Camp e s t a b l i s h e d i n Florida; Talladega, Alabama;
cility holding first offenders
Dachau, near Munich, Ger- Terminal Island, California;
in maximum security at Mid-
many, on March 23, 1933, Texarkana, Texas
way
less than three months after Federal Detention Center i n
Fernando de Noronha B r a -
President von Hindenburg ap- Florence, Arizona’s desert
zilian penal settlement exist-
pointed Hitler as Reich Chan- country
ing since the 18th century, on
an island of the same name in
cellor (prime minister); by
Federal Law Enforcement
April 26 the Gestapo was Training Center ( s e e
the South Atlantic
formed, and by May 10 all Fleetsie)
Fernando Po prisons i n t h e
small island nation of Equa-
books by Jews, and all books
Federal Penitentiaries ( U. S . )
opposing Nazism, were Atlanta, Georgia; Leaven-
torial Guinea in its seaport
burned; the playing of music worth, Kansas; Lewisburg,
cities, Malabo and Bata
by composers of Judaic origin Pennsylvania; Marion, Illi-
fettered restrained by ankle or
was forbidden nois; Terre Haute, Indiana
leg fetters or both
First Prison Newspaper T h e Federal Prison Camps Allen-
fetters steel cuffs placed on the
Summary published by the in- wood, Pennsylvania; Big
ankles or legs of prisoners to
mates of the New York State Spring, Texas; Boron, Cali-
keep them from escaping
Reformatory at Elmira on No- fornia; Eglin Air Force Base,
Fez (see Morocco)
vember 22, 1883—Thanks- Florida; Maxwell Air Force
flebre carcelaria (Spanish—
giving Day Base, Montgomery, Alabama;
prison fever)—fear of impris-
fish(es) n ew l y a r r ive d i n - Safford, Arizona; Seagoville,
onment
mate(s); pimp(s) Texas
Fiesta de la Merced ( S p a n -
ish—Mercy Fiesta)—cele-
Fishkill Fishkill Correctional
Federal Prinson Industries
Facility near Beacon-onHud- (see UNICOR)
brated on September 24, also
known as Prisoners’ Saint’s
son, New York
Federal Probation Officers
Fitzville (see Fayetteville) Association f o u n d e d i n
Day
five spot five-year prison term 1955 to build and maintain
Fijian prisons ex c e p t f o r
(or a five-dollar bill) enlightened public interest in
drunks in lockups, anti-social
FKL Frauen Konzentration parole, probation, and related
criminals are segregated and
Lager (German—Women’s services
forced to live in the most re-
Concentration Camp)—Hit- Federal Training Centre i n
mote parts of this island na-
ler-era prison Laval, Québec for juvenile of-
tion (see Suva)
Flagstaff Coconino County fenders
Filicudi Italian isle of exile in
jail in Arizona Fed Ref Federal Reformatory
the Lipari Islands
finishing school euphemism
flat bit prison sentence for a
Fellowship of First Fleeters
definite period of time (see Australian society whose
for a women’s prison, espe-
split bit) members must prove they
cially one for young women
Fleet Fleet Prison—London’s were descended from the first
Finnamore Wood HM Borstal
jail dating from 14th century shipment of convicts landed
at Finnamore Wood in Buck-
was finally demolished in in Botany Bay in 1788
inghamshire, England
1846, after years of service as felon anyone who has commit-
Finnish prisons F i n l a n d ’s
a debtor’s prison ted a felony
capital city, Helsinki, and cit-
Fleetsie nickname of the Fed- felonry prison-colony popula-
ies such as Tampere and
eral Law Enforcement Train- tion
Turku have prisons, but the
ing Center in Brunswick, felon swell upper-class con-
emphasis is on rehabilitation
Georgia vict
rather than incarceration
FLETC Federal Law Enforce- felony any crime punishable
Firlands minimum-security
ment Training Center (see by imprisonment for more
facility at Firlands, Washing-
Fleetsie) than a year or by death
ton
Fleury Mérgois E u r o p e ’s felony tank jail cell reserved
First American Penitentiary
largest prison and France’s for felons
Walnut Street Jail in Philadel-
largest high-security facility Feltham H M B o r s t a l a t
phia, built in 1790
flex-cuf ties flexible plastic an- Feltham in Middlesex, En-
First Execution by Electrocu-
kle cuffs or handcuffs for gland
tion August 6, 1890 in New
York State’s Auburn Prison
trussing prisoners
Corrections Facilities
floating hells British prison
Fort Madison Iowa State Peni- ships bound for Australia and
forçat (French—convict)—
tentiary at Fort Madison Tasmania during the late 18th
prisoner
Fort Margherita old Sarawak and early 19th centuries;
Ford HM Prison at Ford in
prison near Kuching on the French prison ships bound for
Sussex, England
island of Borneo or Kaliman- Algeria, French Guiana, and
Fordland Missouri site of the
tan served as a Japanese de- New Caledonia, and to the.
Ozark Correctional Center
tention camp for Australian convict colony in French Gui-
Forest Hill Forest Hill Prison
and British prisoners during ana as recently as 1950
in Georgetown, District of
World War II Florence Arizona State Prison;
Columbia, during the Civil
Fort Meade Fort Meade Con- Florence Detention Head-
War and shortly after
fi n e m e n t Fa c i l i t y, Fo r t quarters holding persons
Fort Apache nickname of the
Meade, Maryland awaiting trial or serving short
police station and lockup in
Fort Montluc old prison in sentences; South Carolina site
New York City’s south Bronx,
Lyon, France used during of the Palmer Work Release
also nicknamed the Little
World War II as Gestapo Center
House on the Prairie
headquarters by occupying Florida penal facilities are nu-
Fort Benning Fort Benning
Germans merous and widespread from
Confinement Facility at Fort
Fort Ord Fort Ord Confine- Apalachee and Avon Park to
Benning, Georgia
ment Facility, Fort Ord, Cali- Vero Beach and Zephyrhills
Fort Campbell Fort Campbell
fornia as well as in Arcadia, Belle
Confinement Facility at Fort
Glade, Broward, Bushnell, Fort Pillow Fort Pillow State
Campbell, Kentucky
Chattachoochee, Clermont, Prison Farm on Cold Creek,
Fort Carson Fort Carson Con-
Cross City, Daytona Beach, Tennessee
finement Facility at Fort Car-
East Palatka, Homestead, Im- Fort Polk Fort Polk Confine-
son, Colorado
makalee, Lake Butler, Lan- ment Facility at Fort Polk,
Fort Christian Fort Christian
tana, Lowell, Niceville, Olus- Louisiana
Detention Center on St Tho-
Fort Richardson Fort Rich- City, Raiford, Riverview,
mas island in Charlotte
tee, Pembroke Pines, Polk
ardson Confinement Facility Sneads, Sharpes, Starke, and
Amalie
at Fort Richardson, Alaska Trenton
Fort-de-France Martinique’s
prison in the capital and port
tional Training Facility at Fort tion provides custody for fe-
city of this French West In-
Fort Riley U.S. Army Correc-
Florida Correctional Institu-
Riley, Kansas male felons and a measure of
dian island
Fort Dimanche Haiti’s infa-
mous prison
Fort Saskatchewan Correc-
rehabilitation through educa-
tional Institution n o r t h - tion and vocational training at
east of Edmonton also runs Lowell
Fort Gordon Fo r t G o r d o n
Confinement Facility at Fort
forest camps Florida lockups 67 counties
Gordon, Georgia
Fort Savage nickname of New are served from Gainesville in
Fort Grant Fort Grant Train-
York City’s East Harlem po- Alachua County to Chipley in
ing Center in Arizona, offers
lice station and lockup Washington County; Miami,
educational and vocation
Fort Sill Fort Sill Confinement Jacksonville, and Tampa have
training to felons
Facility at Fort Sill, Okla- their own facilities
Fort Hood Fort Hood Con-
homa Florida School Florida School
finement Facility at Fort
Fort Wayne I n d i a n a s e a t , at Okeechobee holding delin-
Hood, Texas
courthouse, and jail of Allen quents from 12 to 17 years of
Fort Jefferson former military
County age
prison on an island in the Dry
Fort Worth Federal Correc- Florida State Prison a t
Tortugas near Key West, Flor-
tional Institution at Fort Starke, offers inmates aca-
ida
Worth, Texas west of Dallas demic and vocational training
Fort Knox Fort Knox Area
Fossoli di Carpi transit camp as well as on-the-job training
Confinement Facility at Fort
north of Modena, Italy, built Flossenbürg German prison
Knox, Kentucky
by Mussolini’s Black Shirts and town near Nürnberg
Fort Lauderdale B r owa r d
as a depot for Jews and others Floyd Floyd County Jail in
County, Florida, jail
enroute to concentration Rome, Georgia
Fort Leavenworth U.S. Dis-
camps fly a kite smuggle a letter out
ciplinary Barracks at Fort
Fountain GK Fountain Cor- of prison
Leavenworth, Kansas
rectional Center at Holman fly the coop escape from jail
Fort Lewis Fort Lewis Con-
Station, Alabama or prison
finement Facility at Fort
four-time loser(s) criminal(s) Folsom California State Prison
Lewis, Washington
convicted four times of felo- at Folsom
Fort Liquordale Fort Lauder-
dale, Florida’s jail
nies and hence imprisoned for
Corrections Facilities
life under the New York State
gallery 13 prisoner’s grave statute called the Baumes
fried badly burned; electro-
(yard) Law
cuted; intoxicated
gallows m e t a l o r wo o d e n Fox Hill HerMajesty’s Prison
Friends of Assata and Sundi-
framework used for the exe- at Fox Hill on New Provi-
ata u n d e rg r o u n d
cution of criminals by hang- dence Island in the Bahamas
prison-support movement in
ing Fox Lake Wisconsin Correc-
New York City
gallows bird(s) criminal(s) tional Institution (medium-
Frisco San Francisco, Califor-
Galvy Galveston, Texas or its security prison)
nia or its jails and lockups
jail or lockup FPC Federal Prison Camp (Al-
frisk search a body for con-
Gambian prison G a m b i a ’s lenwood, Pennsylvania; Eglin
cealed drugs, contraband,
capital, Banjul, has a jail built Air Force Base, Florida;
weapons, etc.
by the British Lompoc, California; Marion,
Frobisher Bay on the south-
Gamboa rehabilitation center Illinois; Montgomery, Ala-
east coast of Baffin Land in
flanking the Panama Canal’s bama; Safford, Arizona)
the Canadian Arctic’s North-
dredging division close to the FPI Federal Prison Industries
west Territories contains the
Gaillard Cut FPOA Federal Probation Of-
Baffin Correctional Centre
Gamle Swedish prison on a ficers Association
frog’s march nickname for a
Baltic inlet near Vastervik FR Federal Reformatory (El
method of conveying hard-to-
gaol (British spelling—jail)— Reno, Oklahoma and Peters-
handle prisoners (four offic-
term introduced into Britain burg, Virginia)
ers each grab an arm or leg
during the Norman Conquest Framingham Massachusetts
and carry the prisoner along
and equivalent of the French Correctional Institution (for
face downward)
geôle women) in Framingham
Frontera California Institution
gaolage a gaoler’s fee (bribe) Freetown (see Sierra Leone)
for Women at Frontera
gaoler (British—jailer) free world outside prison walls
Frontón Peruvian maximum-
Garbage Dump nickname of Fremantle Fremantle Gaol
security offshore prison on an
the Great Meadow Correc- (Western Australian penal in-
island close to Callao
tional Facility at Comstock, stitution built by convicts)
Frostbite Fairbanks, Alaska or
New York and of California’s French blade the guillotine
its jail and lockup
San Quentin Prison French leave act of slipping
FRW Federal Reformatory for
Gardner Massachusetts loca- away quietly and secretly
Women (Alderson, West Vir-
tion of the North Central Cor- French prisons metropolitan
ginia)
rectional Institution France has many prisons and
fry burn badly; electrocute
garlic and glue convict slang overseas prison colonies once
Fuchu Fuchu Prison (Japan’s
for beef stew were notorious in French Gui-
unheated maximum-security
garnish(es) b r i b e ( s ) g ive n ana (popularly named Devil’s
facility in Greater Tokyo)
prison guards by inmates Island) and in New Cale-
Fukuoka (see Japan’s prisons)
garrote capital-punishment de donia; (see Bourgoin, Cay-
Funafuti (see Tuvalu)
vice of Spanish origin enne, Chateau d’If, Cler-
Fungus Corners Bremerton,
wherein the prisoner is stran- mont-Ferrand, Conciergerie,
Washington and its jail as
gled with an ever-tightening Devil’s Island, Évreux,
well as police-station lockup
iron collar Fort-de-France, Grand Hotel,
funny farm insane asylum;
Gartree Gartree Prison in Le- Lisieux, maison , Mende,
psychiatric ward
Futility Hill prisoner’s grave-
icestershire, England
gas chamber specially built ere, Santé, Tarbes, Tulle, Vin-
Natzweiler, prison, Salpetri- yard at San Quentin, Califo-
room where prisoners are ex- cennes)
mia
ecuted by poison gas Frentes Abiertos (Spanish—
FYC Federal Youth Center
Gasre Tehran, Iran’s great Open Fronts)—minimum-se-
(Ashland, Kentucky and En-
prison also called Ghasre or curity prisons in Cuba
glewood, Colorado)
Qsar fresh fish(es) new prisoner(s)
Gabonese prisons Gabon has
gassing execution in a lethal fresh and sweet just out of jail
prisons in the capital and
gas chamber Fresnes southern suburb of
coastal city of Libreville as
Gates of Hell old nickname Paris and location of Fresnes
well as in Port-Gentil
for the entrance to Macquarie penitentiary
Gadsden Etowah County seat
Harbour on the Indian Ocean Fresno Fresno County court-
and jail northeast of Birming-
coast of Tasmania when it house andjail, in central Cal-
ham, Alabama
was a penal settlement in Van ifornia
Gainesville Tex a s s i t e o f
Diemen’s Land Friarton Friarton Young Of-
Brownwood State School and
Gatesville Texas site of the fenders Institution at Perth,
the Statewide Reception Cen-
Gatesville Unit holding fe- Scotland
ter
Galle (see Sri Lanka)
males in maximum security
Corrections Facilities
Gatun G a t u n P r i s o n f o r
Glenochil Glenochil Deten- Women and Juveniles at Ga-
ghost trains(s) late-night rail-
tion Centre in Scotland tun in the Panama Canal Zone
road train(s) used to transport
glop unappetizing prison food Gavle Swedish experimental
prisoners from one place to
Gloucester H M P r i s o n a t prison where inmates receive
another
Gloucester in Gloucester- personal visits from members
Gib Gibraltar and its convicts
shire, England; city jail in of their families
formerly sentenced to hard la-
Gloucester, Massachusetts gcg gas-chamber green (nick-
bor on The Rock (an HM
Golden J e ff e r s o n C o u n t y name given a bilious green
Gaol)
courthouse and jail in Pueblo, prevalent on the walls of
gibbet gallows for hanging
Colorado many penal institutions)
prisoners from a projecting
arm
GD Gaol Delivery (see jail de-
Golden Grove St Croix penal livery)
facility on the island of St Geisenkirchen Nazi subcamp
Gibraltar British dependency
Croix in the American Virgin Geneva Girls Training School,
off the south coast of Spain
Islands (see Anna’s Hope and Geneva, Nebraska; Illinois
contains an HM Gaol
Fort Christian) State Training School for
Gig Harbor Purdy Treatment
Golden Prison of Paris t h e Girls at Geneva; (see Switzer-
Center for Women at Gig
Louvre—the great art mu- land)
Harbor, Washington
seum formerly a fortress Georgetown Sussex Correc-
Giglio Italian isle of exile in
whose underground vaults tional Institution in Delaware;
the Tuscan Islands; a law, en-
held hunting dogs and politi- also the capital of Guyana and
acted in post-World War II It-
cal prisoners site of a prison built by the
aly, permits judges to exile
suspected criminals to remote
Goldsboro North Carolina site British
places such as Giglio
of the Wayne Correctional George Town (see Malayan
GII Georgia Industrial Insti-
Center prisons)
tute at Alto
Gila Bend Indian reservation
golpe final ( P o r t u g u e s e o r
Georgia Diagnostic and Clas-
Spanish—final blow)—death sification penal facility in
in Arizona used after Pearl
blow, execution Jackson, Georgia
Harbor as a relocation center
for Japanese-Americans
Goochland site of the Virginia
Georgia Industrial Institute
Correctional Center for (see GII)
Girls’ Cottage School Cham-
Women Georgia jails the state’s 159
bly, Québec
Girls Rehab Girls Rehabilita-
Goodman Correctional Insti-
counties are served by prison
tution in Columbia, South facilities from Baxley in Ap-
tion Facility (GRF) in San Di-
Carolina cares for geriatric pling County to Sylvester in
ego, California
and handicapped inmates Worth County; Atlanta, Co-
girl’s school nickname for a
good time time taken off a lumbus, Macon, and Savan-
reformatory for young female
prisoner’s sentence in return nah have local lockups
offenders
for good behavior Georgia State Prison ( s e e
Girl’s Town correctional facil-
go over the hill escape Reidsville)
ity for misdemeanants at
Tecumseh, Oklahoma
go over the wall escape
Georgia Training and Devel-
Goree Goree Island off Dakar opment Center ( s e e B u -
Gitmo Guantanamo, Cuba
(westernmost tip of Africa) ford)
(U.S. Naval Base jail or the
served as the shipping point geriatric institution n i c k -
jail in the nearby town of
for slaves headed to the New German prisons a l l o f t h e
Guantanamo)
name for an old prison
give a permanent wave elec-
trocute
World from the 1500s to the mid-1800s; today tourists
concentration camps, exter-
Giza (see Egypt)
mination camps, and
GK Gaol Keeper
visit its dungeons and are shown the Doorway of No
forced-labor camps listed
Return in the House of Slaves elsewhere were erected and
Glades Glades Correctional
Goree Unit m a x i m u m - c u s - prisons still in use such as
Institution at Belle Glade,
used during Hitler’s regime;
tody unit in Huntsville, Texas Berlin’s Moabit or Spandau
Florida; offers English
Gorgona (see Colombia) date back to the time of the
classes to Hispanic inmates as
well as educational and voca-
Gorki transit prison camp in kaisers
tional training
the Russian city of Gorki, for- get the wind escape; take off
Glasgow prison in Scotland’s
merly Nizhni Novgorod get the works be given a death
seaport city, also called Bar-
Goshen secure center for juve- sentence
linnie; includes the Barlinnie
nile delinquents in Goshen, Ghana’s prisons d u r i n g t h e
Young Offenders Institution
New York 113 years of British rule jails
Glass House nickname for the
go stir bug go crazy while im- were erected in Accra and Ku-
Los Angeles County Jail in
prisoned masi
California
glazing (see detention glazing)
Göteburg (see Sweden)
Corrections Facilities
government men Australian
Guantanamo U.S. Naval Sta- euphemism for former con-
green lights in front of all New
tion at Guantanamo and its victs
York City police stations and
brig Governor British penal equiv-
their lockups (see blue lights)
guardhouse military jail or alent of Warden
Greenock prison for female
lockup Grafton site of the West Vir-
offenders, in Greenock, Scot-
Guatemala City capital and ginia Industrial School for
land
site of a large prison Boys for delinquents from 10
Greensboro G r e e n s b o r o ,
Guatemalan prisons G u a t e - to 18 years of age in mini-
North Carolina jail in Guil-
mala City has its cárcel mod- mum custody
ford County
elo as well as lockups main- Graham Graham Correctional
Greensburg Pennsylvania lo-
tained by the military forces Center in Hillsboro, Illinois;
cation of the Regional Cor-
Guaya Guayaquil, Ecuador or its jail Grand Forks Grand Forks,
rectional Facility
medium-security facility
green triangle criminal identi-
fication badge worn in con-
Mexican port on the Gulf of Grand Hotel n i c k n a m e o f
North Dakota county jail
centration camps controlled
Guaymas prison in Guaymas,
California French Polynesia’s prison in
by the Nazis in World War II
guest of the city prisoner con- Tahiti
Greenville South Carolina lo-
cation of the Blue Ridge Pre- Release Work-Release Center
fined to a city jail Grand Island Grand Island,
guest of the governor p r i s - Nebraska county jail
Grenada gaol in St George’s
oner in a state penitentiary Grand Mount C u s t o d i a l
where it was called HM Gaol
guest of the nation p r i s o n e r School for Girls at Grand
during the years of British co-
in a federal penitentiary Mount, Washington
lonial administration
guest of the realm prisoner in Granite site of Oklahoma
Grendon HM Prison Grendon
any HM gaol State Reformatory for maxi-
at Grendon Underwood; the
guest of the state prisoner in mum-security inmates
first psychiatric prison in the
a state penal institution Grass Lake Michigan site of
United Kingdom to have a
guillotine (see louisette) the Correction Camp Pro-
full-time psychiatrist as its
guillotineur (French—guillo- gram
medical superintendent
tiner)—executioner using the Graterford Pennsylvania Cor-
GRF (see Girls Rehab)
guillotine rections Department prison
Grimes County Texas facility
Guinea-Bissau former Portu- southeast of Pottstown
in Navasota
guese colony with an old, un- graybar hotel jail, lockup,
Gross Rosen Nazi concentra-
improved prison in the capital prison of any kind
tion camp known for the num-
and port city of Bissau Great Falls Great Falls, Mon-
ber of forced-labor slaves it
Guinea prisons C o n a k r y, tana county jail
furnished German industry
ground animal meat p r i s o n
Labe, N’Zerekore, and Kan-
Great Jailer of the Caribbean
kan have prisons built by the Fidel Castro
nickname for hamburgers, hot dogs, sausages
French Great Meadow Great
Gulag Archipelago Soviet au- Meadow Correctional Facil-
group home nonconfining res-
idential facility for adjudi-
thor Alexander Solzhen- ity—a maximum-security
cated adults or juveniles (see
itsyn’s name for the forced la- prison at Comstock, New York
halfway house)
bor camps and prisons Grecian prisons such struc-
Gruenheid East Berlin prison
throughout the USSR tures in the Hellenic Republic
Guadalajara Mexican prison
Gulag of China n o r t h w e s t date back to classical times in
in Jalisco’s capital city of
province of Qinghai where Athens, Piraeus, Patras, or
Guadalajara
many forced labor camps are smaller places
Guadalcanal (see Solomon Is-
located Green Bay Wisconsin loca-
lands)
gurney hospital bed on wheels tion of the Green Bay Correc-
Guadalupe Guadalupe, Chi-
used to convey a death-sen- tional Institution, holding
huahua and its jail
tenced criminal from death first-offender juvenile delin-
Guadeloupe an overseas de-
row to the chamber where le- quents and serving as a recep-
partment of France with lock-
thal gas or injection is used to tion center for young adult
ups in Basse Terre and
carry out the sentence males
Guadeloupe
Gurs French internment camp Greencastle location of the In-
Guamanian prison Ordot is
for Spanish Nationalists flee- diana State Farm
the penitentiary on the island
ing Franco’s troops and later Green Haven Green Haven
of Guam
for Jews interned by the Correctional Facility—maxi-
Guanajay C u b a n p r i s o n
Petain-Laval police mum-security prison near
southwest of Havana
Gusen forced-labor camp run Stormville, New York
Guanajuato prison in Guana-
juato, Mexico
by the Nazis in Austria
Corrections Facilities
Guy Guyana (nickname for
Havana ( s e e H a b a n a a n d any jail in this country once
needing a period of readjust-
Cuba) named British Guiana)
ment to the community after
Haverigg HM Prison at Haver- Guyama Guyama Regional
confinement
igg on the coast of England Detention Center on the
Hall Hall of Justice
opposite the Isle of Man south-east coast of Puerto
Hallowell the Stevens School
Hawaii’s lockups four coun- Rico
for female juvenile delin-
ties comprise this state and Guyana has a prison in its cap-
quents at Hallowell, Louisi-
each has it own lockup; one ital city of Georgetown as
ana
in Honolulu serves Honolulu well as lockups in the interior
Hamilton Hamilton County
County on Oahu; another in Guyane française ( F r e n c h
Jail in Cincinnati, Ohio
Hilo serves the county and is- Guiana)—extends along the
Hampton Road F r e m a n t l e ,
land of Hawaii; a third in tropical Atlantic coast of
West Australian prison on
Wailuku serves Maui; a northern South America be-
Hampton Road
fourth in Lihue is for the is- tween 1 and 6 degrees north
handcuffed and fettered held
land of Kauai of the Equator; it qualifies as
or restrained by handcuffs
and fetters
Hawaii Youth Correctional
Facility in Honolulu on until the early 1950s was no-
a fever-infested hellhole and
handcuffs adjustable metal
Oahu Island. torious for its extensive penal
bracelets connected by a
Hawalli (see Kuwait) colony nicknamed Devil’s Is-
chain and used to restrain
Hayes Hayes Prison Farm, land
hanging method of execution in
Black Hills, Tasmania Guy’s Marsh HM Borstal at
Delaware, Montana, New
Haynesville Louisiana site of Guy’s Marsh in Dorset, En-
Hampshire, Utah, Washing-
the Wade Correctional Center gland
ton
Heart of Midlothian n i c k - gyves handcuffs or fetters
hangman executioner
name Sir Walter Scott gave Habana Havana has prisons
hangman’s day customarily
the Tolbooth Prison in Edin- dating back to the years of
Friday
burgh, Scotland the scene of Spanish domination from
Hanoi (see Vietnam)
his novel, The Heart of Mid- 1492 to 1898; Morro Castle
Hanoi Hilton n i c k n a m e o f
lothian at the entrance to Habana
Hanoi’s Hoa Lo prison
Heart Mountain Wy o m i n g Harbor contains an old Span-
Hanover Learning Center at
location of a Japanese-Amer- ish prison still in use
Hanover, Virginia
ican relocation center set up hack(s) jailer(s); prison guard(s)
Harbison Harbison Correc-
after Pearl Harbor Haddam site of a Connecticut
tional Institution for Women
Helena Montana site of the jail built in 1786 now occu-
at Irmo, South Carolina
Mountain View School for fe- pied by the Connecticut Jus-
hard labor sentence involving
imprisonment plus useful la-
male delinquents from 10 to
21 years of age tice Academy
bor such as road building or
maintenance
Helena State School for Boys
Hagerstown site of the Mary- land Correctional Institution
in Helena, Oklahoma, holds and the Maryland Correc-
Hardwick site of the Middle
delinquent boys from 15 to 17 tional Training Center
Georgia Correctional Com-
plex, also the site of the
years of age
helicoptered dropped into the Hague the Hague (see Nether-
Youthful Offender Unit
ocean from a helicopter while lands)
Harlem Valley Harlem Valley
manacled (reports from Ar- Haiphong (see Vietnam)
Secure Center for juvenile
gentina indicate political pris- Haitian prisons H a i t i h a s
and youthful offenders in
oners have been executed in prisons built by the French in
Poughkeepsie, New York
this manner) Port-au-Prince and Cap-Hai-
Harris Harris County Juvenile
helicopter surveillance ( s e e tien between 1677 and 1804
Detention Center (Houston,
ASTREA) Halawa Halawa High Security
Texas)
Hellhole of the Pacific N ew Facility at Aiea on the island
Harrisburg Dauphin County
Zealand’s North Island port of of Oahu, Hawaii (see Hono-
seat of Pennsylvania’s capital
Russell when it was called lulu Jail)
city; its jail is one of many
Kororareka half a stretch six month’s im-
through the state
Hartford Connecticut Com-
Hell of Macquarie Harbour
Station nickname of an old halfway house nonconfining
prisonment
munity Correctional Center in
penal colony on the coast of residential facility for adjudi-
Hartford, also the site of the
Tasmania cated adults or juveniles; fa-
county jail
Hell’s Gates Macquarie Har- cility providing an alternative
Hatfield HM Borstal at Hat-
bour—Tasmania’s first penal to confinement for persons
field in Yorkshire, England
settlement not suitable for probation or
Hattiesburg Hattiesburg, Mis-
sissippi or its jail
Helsinki (see Finnish prisons)
Corrections Facilities
hempen four-in-hand h a n g -
Homantin Homantin Girls man’s noose
Hilo site of Hawaii Commu-
Home (formerly Hong hemp stretcher e u p h e m i s m
nity Correctional Center;
Kong’s Matauwei Girls for hangman
also, the Kulani Correctional
Home) Hendry Hendry Correctional
Facility, formerly the Kulani
Homestead (see Dade Correc- Institution at Immokalee,
Honor Camp
tional Institution) Florida
Hilton Head o l d F e d e r a l
Hominy m e d i u m - s e c u r i t y Hennepin refers to any of
prison for Confederate pris-
prison officially called the three Minnesota penal facili-
oners of war in the 1860s on
the South Carolina coast
Conner Correctional Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma
ties: the Hennepin County
Hindley HM Borstal at Hind-
Homs (see Syria) Home School in Minnetonka,
ley in Lancashire, Englimd
Honaira (see Solomon Is- the Hennepin County Juve-
hit the fence e s c a p e f r o m
lands) nile Center in Roseville, or
prison
Honduran prisons Teg - the Hennepin County Work-
hit the pit jailed
house in Wayzata
hit the sidewalk r e l e a s e d
ucigalpa, the capital city, and
the port of San Pedro Sula, Hennigsdorf Nazi subcamp
from jail
have cárcel modelo prisons close to Berlin and larger con-
Hong Kong British crown col- centration camps
HK Hong Kong or one of its
ony off China’s south coast; hen pen reformatory for fe-
several jails and prisons
HLPR Howard League for Pe-
centers for the treatment of
males narcotic addicts are available
nal Reform (London, En-
herder(s) prison guard(s) as well as lockups and prisons
gland)
HMBI Her (His) Majesty’s
Her (His) Majesty’s Peniten-
Honolulu site of the Condi-
tiary in St John’s initiated tional Release Branch, the
Borstal Institution
in 1859 in Newfoundland’s Laumaka Conditional Re-
HMG Her (His) Majesty’s
lease Center, the Oahu Com- capital
Gaol—the royal jail
munity Correctional Center Hermes dismegitus ( L a t i n —
HM Gaol Her (His) Majesty’s
Honolulu Jail nucleus of the Thrice-great Hermes)—
Gaol (in the British Common-
Halawa High Security Facil- Egyptian god Thoth and the
wealth)
ity at Aiea on Hawaii’s Oahu code of laws he left concern-
HMP Her (His) Majesty’s Pen-
Island ing crime and punishment
itentiary; Her (His) Majesty’s
hook ’em hook them (fasten Hermosillo S o n o r a s t a t e
Prison
with handcuffs) prison in Hermosillo, Mexico
HM Prison Her (His) Maj-
Hooper Home Isaac T Hooper Herstedvester Danish psychi-
esty’s Prison
Home (first halfway house in atric prison for its advanced
Hoa Lo downtown prison in
the United States, opened by methods resulting in reduced
Hanoi, Vietnam, nicknamed
the Society of Friends— recidivism
the Hanoi Hilton
Quakers—in New York City Herzegovina (see Yugoslavia)
hobbling walking with leg
in 1845) Hewell Grange HM Borstal at
irons attached
Hobo Hoboken, New Jersey or
hoosegow jail (term may de-
rive from the Spanish—juz- Hewell Grange in Worcester-
its jail
gado —court of justice) shire, England
Ho Chi Minh City formerly
hoosier(s) prison visitor(s) hierros (Spanish—irons)—
Saigon (see Vietnam)
Hope Halls halfway houses handcuffs
hoist to hang a person; to rob
hole(s) solitary-confinement
sustained by the Volunteers of
Highland Rim School for
cell(s)
America from 1896 through the 1920s
Girls in Tullahoma, Tennes-
see for females from 12 to 18
Horsemonger Horsemonger years of age
Holland site of the Michigan
Lane Gaol (infamous London Highpoint HM Prison at High-
Dunes Correctional Facility
lockup and the scene of many point in West Suffolk, En-
Hollesley Bay Colony H M
Borstal at Hollesley Bay Col-
hangings such as the one
gland Dickens described in a letter High Security Center i n
ony in Suffolk, England
Holloway HM Prison at Hollo-
to The Times)
Cranston, Rhode Island Hotlana Atlanta, Georgia, its
way in Derbyshire, England
near Sheffield
Hillcrest School of Oregon
jail, or federal Penitentiary
hot seat electric chair in Salem holds juvenile-court
Holman Holman Prison at
Hot Springs Garland County commitments
Holman Station, Alabama
jail near Little Rock, Arkan- Hillsboro (see Graham)
Holmesburg prison in Holm-
sas Hillsborough H i l l s b o r o u g h
esburg, Pennsylvania
hot squat electric chair Correctional Institution at
Holzminden German maxi-
House 33 Soviet secret-police Riverview, Florida
mum-security prison north-
west of Göttingen
prison in Rostov-on-Don
Corrections Facilities
House of C House of Correc-
Iksha former Soviet corrective tion
Huntsville Madison County-
labor colony for juvenile of- House of D House of Deten-
jail north of Birmingham, Al-
fenders close to Moscow’s tion
abama; penal institutions
notorious prison house(s) of darkness prison(s)
such as the Diagnostic Unit,
Ellis Unit, Goree Unit, Hunts-
Île du Diable (French—Devil’s
house(s) of detention jail(s);
Island)—penal colony used to lockup(s)
ville Unit, Wynne Unit in
keep political prisoners com- Houston Texas and its jails and
Hunstville, Texas
pletely segregated prisons
Huntsville Unit correctional
Îles du Salut (French—Secu- Howard John Howard—18th
facility in Huntsville, Texas
rity Islands)—off mainland century English prison re-
Huron Valley Huron Valley
French Guiana; group con- former who advocated voca-
Men’s Facility or Huron Val-
sists of Île du Diable (Devil’s tional training and work as
ley Women’s Facility in Yp-
Island), Île Royale, and Île ways to make men honest;
silanti, Michigan
Saint Joseph Rhode Island town containing
Huron Valley Men’s Facility
Île Saint Louis (French—Saint the Admission and Orienta-
Ypsilanti’s maximum-secu-
Louis Island)—leper colony tion Unit, the Maximum Cus-
rity prison
for convicts in French Guiana t o d y Fa c i l i t y, t h e M e -
Huron Valley Women’s Facil-
Ilha de Flôres (Portugueses dium-Minimum Facility, the
ity in Ypsilanti, Michigan
—land of Flowers)—Brazil- Rhode Island Training School
Hutchinson location of the
ian prison in Rio de Janeiro for Girls, and the Rhode Is-
Kansas State Industrial Re-
formatory
Illinois Industrial School for
Boys (see Sheridan) Hudson Hudson Correctional
land School for Boys
hut(s) prison cell(s)
Illinois lockups the state’s 102 Facility at Hudson, New
Huttonsville West Virginia site
counties offer detention facil- York; Hudson County Peni-
ities, the biggest are in Chi- tentiary in New Jersey; New
of the Huttonsville Correc-
cago’s Cook County York School for Girls at Hud-
tional Center holding male
felons
Immokalee Florida location of son, New York
Hyderabad (see Pakistan)
the Hendry Correctional In- Hudson Street alimony jail on
stitution the lower west side of Man-
IAPL International Association
immurement c o n fi n e m e n t hattan where inmates were
of Penal Law
within walls imprisoned for failure to pay
ICA Illinois Correctional As-
impound imprison alimony
sociation; Indiana Correc-
Imrali Turkish prison farm on Hue (see Vietnam)
tional Association; Iowa Cor-
Imrali Island in the Sea of hulk(s) prison ship(s)—usu-
rections Association
ICCC International Concen-
tration Camp Committee—
Marmara Imros Turkish prison on Imros
ally old craft unfit for the high
Island in the Aegean Sea seas but adequate as jails
(Vienna, Austria) icebox prison coroner’s labora-
incorrigible person who will Hull HM Prison at Kingston-
not be corrected, reformed, upon-Hull; other prisons in
tory and office
rehabilitated, or made to con- Canada’s Hull opposite Ot-
ice(d) jail(ed) Iceland the capital, Reykjavik,
tawa and in Hull, Massachu-
has one small prison
form to social standards Indiana Boys School for de-
setts
ICFPW International Confed-
linquents from 12 to 21 years
Humanitarian Penologist
of age; in Plainfield Eugene V Debs (1855–1926)
eration of Former Prisoners of
Indiana Girls School in Indi- (see Presidential Candidate
War (Paris, France)
anapolis for delinquents from and Prison Convict)
ICSPPR International Centre
12 to 20 years of age Hungarian prisons were built
of Sociological, Penal, and
Indiana jails the state’s 92 during the Austro-Hungarian
Penitentiary Research (Mes-
counties have facilities for Empire
sina, Italy)
holding felons; cities such as Hunt Corrections Center S t
Idaho jails facilities for incar-
Indianapolis have their own Gabriel, Louisiana’s penal fa-
ceration are found in the 44
lockups cility serving as an adult re-
counties
Indianapolis Marion County’s ception and diagnostic center
Idaho State Idaho State Cor-
jail as well as the Indiana together with maximum-and
rectional Institution in Boise
Girls School medium-security sections
if you can’t do the sentence,
Indiana State Farm medium- Huntercombe HM Borstal at
don’t do the job elderly
security facility in Greencas- Huntercombe in Oxfordshire,
convict’s advice to anyone
tle England
planning a criminal career
Indiana State Prison i n Huntingdon Pennsylvania lo-
IHHA International Halfway
Michigan City holds maxi- cation of the State Correc-
House Association
mum-and medium-security tional Institution
Ikoyi Ikoyi Prison in Lagos,
Nigeria
felons
Corrections Facilities
Indiana State Reformatory a
informant person giving infor-
International Halfway House
maximum-and minimum-se-
Association publisher of the curity penal facility in
mation to law-enforcement
Directory of Residential Pendleton
officers who may use it in the
Treatment Centers Indiana Women’s Prison i n
investigation of criminals
injection (see death by injec-
International Penal and Peni-
Indianapolis
tion)
tentiary Commission
Indiana Youth Center a me-
founded in 1872 and in 1950 dium-security facility in
inmate convict; person in a
became a part of the United Plainfield
confinement facility; prisoner
Nations; originally known as Indian prisons the Republic
Innisfail Canadian site of the
the International Penitentiary of India maintains prisons in
Bowden Institution
INS Immigration and Natural-
Commission
ization Service
International Prisoners Aid
all principal cities; the Black
Association publishes the Hole of Calcutta within Cal-
In-Service Training (IST)
Directory of Prisoners Aid cutta’s Fort William was
within California state pris- ons
Agencies where, during the Indian Mu-
in the grinder in jail; in prison tiny in 1756, some 146 Euro-
inside the tall walls i n s i d e
in the nick ( C o c k n ey E n - peans were imprisoned in
prison
glish—in jail; in prison) such cramped quarters that by
Institute The Institute (nick-
intimidation fear of punish- the next morning only 23 re-
name for any penal facility
ment mained alive
having Institute in its title)
Invercargill I nve r c a rg i l l Indian River I n d i a n R ive r
institutional capacity o ffi -
Borstal Institution near Inver- Correctional Institution at
cially determined number of
cargill on South Island New Vero Beach, Florida (see Vero
inmates a correctional facility
Zealand Beach)
is designed to house
Inverness prison in Inverness, Indian River School for juve-
institutional superintendent
Scotland nile-delinquent boys in
warden
Ionia site of the Michigan Re- Massilon, Ohio
Institution for Youthful
formatory, Michigan Training indic indicateur (French—in-
Offenders in Santurce, Pu-
Unit, and the Riverside Cor- formant)
erto Rico
rection Facility Indio Indio Branch of the Riv-
Instituto Nacional de Orienta-
Iowa jails 99 counties provide erside County Jail in Califor-
cion Femenina ( S p a n i s h —
detention facilities; cities nia
National Institute of Femi-
such as Des Moines have their individual confinement s o l i -
nine Orientation)—women’s
prison in los Teques of the
own lockups
Miranda Ejido of Venezuela
Iowa Security and Medical
Facility at Oakdale Indonesian prison island Java
tary imprisonment
Insular Penitentiary i n R i o
Iowa State Penitentiary a t Indonesian prisons o n e
Piedra near San Juan, Puerto
Fort Madison prison exists on each of the
Rico
Intake Service Center C r a n -
Iowa Training School for
Girls at Mitchellville on the small islands; in
major islands along with jails
ston, Rhode Island facility for
IPAA International Prisoners Jakarta, Surabaja, Bandung,
holding pre-trial detainees
Aid Association (Louisville, Semarang, and Medan are pe-
intensive care unit l o c ke d
Kentucky) nal institutions ranging from
unit for juvenile offenders
IPPC International Penal and jails to prisons
intermediate-term adult penal
Penitentiary Commission industrial prison workshop-
institutions of the U.S.
(see entry) oriented penitentiary where
Bureau of Prisons D a n -
IPPF International Penal and inmates produce such items
bury Connecticut; Fort Worth,
Penitentiary Foundation as highway signs, mail bags,
Texas; La Tuna, Texas; Lex-
(Neuchatel, Switzerland) furniture, and vehicle license
ington, Kentucky; Milan,
Iranian prisons exist in Te- plates
Michigan; Sandstone, Minne-
sota; Terminal Island, Cali-
hran, Ishfahan, Mashad,
Industrial School for Women
Tabriz, and other metropoli- in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico
fornia; Texarkana, Texas
internados judiciales (Span-
tan places
IRC (see Inebriate Reception Indy Indianapolis, Indiana’s
ish—judicial boarding
Center) jails
houses)—penal facilities for
holding convicts; in Venezu-
Irish prisons D u b l i n ’s o l d
Inebriate Reception Center
prisons is Kilmainham; Cork in San Diego, California
ela there are 18 such institu-
prison is on Rathmore Road; where nonviolent abusers of
tions
Limerick has one on Rutland alcohol and other drugs ac-
internal exile Soviet euphe-
Street cept coffee and counseling in
mism for imprisonment in
Irma Wisconsin site of the lieu of being jailed
some remote part of the
former USSR
Lincoln Hills School
Corrections Facilities
Irmo Harbison Correctional
jailhouse punk any prisoner Institution for Women at
Ivory Coast’s prisons during
who becomes a homosexual Irmo, South Carolina
French occupation prisons
while imprisoned iron houses jail; lockup; peni-
were built that are still in use
jail limits area or district sur- tentiary; prison
in the capital, Abidjan, and in
rounding a jail where debtors ironmongery department Her
Bouaké as well as in smaller
may be at large under a bond (His) Majesty’s prison
cities
of security ISIS Investigative Support In-
Iwakuni U.S. Marine Corps
jail plant narcotics concealed formation System (FBI)
Correctional Facility of
on a person condemned to im- Isla de la Juventud ( S p a n -
lwakuni, Japan
prisonment or visiting a penal ish—Isle of Youth)—Isla de
Izmir Turkish city jails and
institution Pinos (Isle of Pines)
prison (formerly ruled by the
Jakarta (see Indonesian pris- Isla de Pinos (Spanish—Isle
Greeks who called it Smyrna)
ons) of Pines)—site of prisons
jacket prisoner’s case history
Jalapa prison in Jalapa, the housing political prisoners
or dossier
capital of the Mexican state or Islamabad (see Pakistan)
Jackson site of Georgia Diag-
Veracruz Island Blackwell’s (Welfare,
nostic and Classification Fa-
Jamaica penal facilities in- now Roosevelt) Island in New
cility; Jackson, Mississippi
clude Richmond Farm Prison, York City; Parkhurst Prison
jail; Michigan site of what
St Catherin’s District Prison, on the Isle of Wight; Rikers
probably is the world’s largest
and the Tamarind Farm Prison Island in New York
walled prison enclosing 57
Jamejala Soviet Psychiatric Island of Hell Norfolk Island
acres and 23 hectares, as well
hospital in the South Pacific Ocean,
as the Reception and Guid-
Jamesburg New Jersey loca- once the most dreaded of all
ance Center and the State
tion of the Training School Australian penal stations
Prison of Southern Michigan;
for Boys and Girls Isle of Flowers (see Ilha de
North Carolina location of the
Jamestown Sierra Conserva- Flóres)
Odom penal facility
tion Center at Jamestown, Isle of Pines (see Cuba, Isla de
Jacksonville Duval County’s
California Pinos)
jail in Jacksonville, Florida
jamocha java + mocha (prison Isle of Wight Parkhurst Prison
Jaffna (see Sri Lanka)
slang for coffee) on the Isle of Wight in the
jail penal facility usually run
by local law-enforcement of-
Janie Porter Barrett School
for Girls at Hanover, Virig- isolation tank solitary-con-
English Channel
ficers; often used as pre-trial
detention centers
inia
Japanese-American relocation
finement cell
JAIL Justice Against Identifi-
centers caps set up after the isolator Soviet penal colony
catioin Laws
attack upon Pearl Harbor at specializing in solitary con-
jailage a jailer’s fee, bribes
Manzanar and Tule Lake in finement; many were in dis-
California, Gila and Poston in tant parts of the Siberian Arc-
jail bait person(s) whose ille-
Arizona, Topaz in Utah, tic and in the White Sea east
gal activities lead to incarcer-
Minidoka in Idaho, Heart of Kern on the Solovetski Is-
ation; female under legal age
of sexual consent
lands
jailbird ex-convict, prisoner,
Mountain in Wyoming, Ama- che in Colorado, Jerome and
Isole Eolie (Italian—Aeolian
Roh-wer in Arkansas Islands)—the Lipari Islands
or recidivist
Japanita Santa Anita Assem- off the north coast of Sicily
jail delivery clearing a jail of
bly Center’s nickname when used as penal colonies
its inmates by bringing them
the racetrack stables were ISP Idaho State Penitentiary;
to trial and then releasing
used for the incarceration of Institute of Social Psychiatry
them or remanding to prison
Japanese-Americans IST I n - S e r v i c e Tr a i n i n g
jail distemper jail fever (ty-
Japan’s prisons penal facili- (within California state pris-
phus); sickness brought on by
ties are provided by all 47 of ons)
incarceration or fear of incar-
Japan’s prefectures and are to Istanbul formerly Constanti-
ceration
be found in its cities such as nople (see Turkey)
jail fever typhus fever occur-
Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Italian prisons Rome’s Re-
ring in jails and other
Nagoya, Kyoto, Kobe, Sa- gina Coeli (Queen of
crowded places
poro, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Heaven), Genoa (Prigione
Jail Forum quarterly publica-
and Kawasaki d’Genova), Milan (Ducato
tion of the National Jail As-
jaula (Spanish—cage)—slang Milanese), Naples (Caserta),
sociation
for a jail or lockup and Venice (Pozzi)
jailhouse building used as a
Jax Jacksonville, Florida lock- Ivanovo, internal prison of the
jail
ups Soviet secret police in
jailhouse lawyer convict who
Jay State Prison at Jay, Florida Ivanovo
is well-informed about the
law
J-bird jailbird
Corrections Facilities
jd juvenile delinquent
judas peephole in a prison-cell JDC Juvenile Detention Cen-
Joe Harp Correctional Cen-
door constructed so the in- ter
ter in Lexington, Oklahoma
mate(s) can be observed with- Jean site of the Southern Ne-
Joelton location of the Tennes-
out knowing it vada Correctional Center
see Youth Center
judicial execution execution Jeff City Jefferson City, Mis-
Joey man who takes a pris-
in response to a court order souri jail
oner’s place at home while
judicial hanging hanging per- Jefferson Jefferson County
the convict is imprisoned
formed in response to a court Jail in Birmingham, Ala-
Johannesburg (see South Af-
order bama; Jefferson Parish Jail
rica)
judicial murder capital pun- near New Orleans, Louisiana
John Saint John in the Ameri-
ishment Jefferson City site of the Cen-
can Virgin Islands, Saint John
judicium capitale ( L a t i n — tral Missouri Correctional
in New Brunswick, Canada
capital justice)—justice Center, the Missouri Interme-
and their lockups
through execution diate Reformatory, and the
John Howard Association
jug(ged) jail(ed) Missouri State Penitentiary
founded in 1901 to honor an
Jugoslavia (see Yugoslavia) for men
18th-century English prison
jug(s) jail(s); prison(s) Jefftown Journal prisoner’s
reformer; meets in Chicago
and its members offer profes-
drug addicts Jen Penjara Singapore’s Re-
periodical published at Jeffer-
jug tank(s) prison cell(s) for son City, Missouri’s prison
sional consultation services
Julia Julia Tutwiler Prison for mand prison nickname for the
John Howard Association of
Women at Wetumpka, Ala- road where it is located
Hawaii Honolulu’s prisoner
bama Jerome Arkansas location of a
service agency
Juneau Juneau Correctional Japanese-American reloca-
John’s Saint John’s, Newfoun-
Center in Alaska tion center during World
daland, jail
Johnson Hall Forensic Unit
Jungfernhof extermination fa- War II
cility near Riga where many Jersey City New Jersey city
Evanston, Wyoming, for pris-
Austrian Jews were murdered lockups
oners who are dangerously
mentally ill or in need of ex-
tensive psychiatric treatment
junk tank prison cell for drug
Jess Dunn Correctional Cen-
addicts ter in Taft, Oklahoma
Johnson’s Island C o n f e d e r-
jus publicum (Latin—penal Jessup site of the Maryland
ate prisoners of war were held
law; public law) Correctional Institution for
on Johnson’s Island in Lake
Justice U.S. Department of Women, Maryland Correc-
Erie
Justice tional Pre-Release System,
Joliet site of the Joliet Correc-
juve delinquent(s) j u ve n i l e Maryland House of Correc-
tional Center and the States-
delinquent(s) tion
ville Correctional Center
Juvenile Hall holding facility Jester Unit Texas pre-release
Joliet Correctional C e n t e r
for juvenile delinquents facility in Richmond
maximum-security prison in
juvenile-justice agency g ov - Jesup federal correctional in-
Joliet, Illinois
ernment agency concerned stitution in Jesup, Georgia
Joplin J o p l i n , M i s s o u r i ,
with the adjudication, care, Jewell Manor Jewell Manor
county jail
confinement, investigation, Girls Center at Louisville,
Jordan’s prison Jordan’s cap-
and supervision of juvenile Kentucky
ital, Amman, has one of the
delinquents JHA (see John Howard Asso-
world’s worst prisons
Juvenile Justice Center L o s ciation)
Jorge Navarro N i c a r a g u a n
Angeles, California agency JHAH John Howard Associa-
prison in Tipitapa
designed to cope with juve- tion of Hawaii
Journal of Correctional Edu-
nile delinquency JHDF Juvenile Hall Detention
cation quarterly publication
of the CEA (Correctional Ed-
juvenile penal institutions of
Facility
ucation Association)
the U.S. Bureau of Prisons
jhj’s jailhouse juvenile delin-
Ashland, Kentucky; Engle- quents
Joycevill Institution in King-
wood, Colorada; Morgan- Jidda (see Saudi Arabia)
ston, Ontario
town, West Virginia JIS Jail Inspection Service
JPS Juvenile Probation Ser-
juvenile record(s) o ffi c i a l Jiuren former Soviet prison
vices
record(s) containing informa- near Inner Mongolia
jrl jail-release information
tion concerning juvenile court JJC Juvenile Justice Center
Juárez Ciurdad Juárez, Chi-
proceedings and all applica- (Los Angeles, California)
huahua, jail
ble correctional and detention JLS Jail Library Service (Cal-
Juariles ( M ex i c a n - A m e r i -
process ordered ifornia State Library)
can—Ciudad Juárez)—or its
juvei(s) juvenile delinquent(s); Joburg Johannesburg, South
jail
juvenile hall(s); juvenile la- Africa jail
Jubilee Jubilee Lodge for Girls
at Brimfield, Illinois
wenforcement officer(s)
Corrections Facilities
K-9 Corps Canine Corps (po-
Karaganda and Kolyma t wo
Kentucky State Reformatory
medium-security facility at Kabul capital city of Afghani-
lice dogs)
of the world’s largest forced-
La Grange stan and nickname for its
labor penal camps; both in the
Kenya’s prisons date back to prison
former USSR
the time of British rule Kaiserwald Nazi concentra-
Karnet Karnet Rehabilitation
Ketchikan Ketchikan Correc- tion camp in Latvia during
Centre (Western Australia)
tional Center, Alaska most of World War II
Kars prison near the eastern
Kharkov wo r l d ’s l a rg e s t Kakogawa c a r e l e s s - d r ive r
border of Turkey
prison in the capital city of the prison serving Japan’s Osaka-
Kathmandu (see Nepal)
K h a r kov r eg i o n o f t h e Kobe-Kyoto area; prisoners
katorga (Russian—hard penal
Ukraine receive driving lessons daily;
Khartoum (see Sudan) at dawn and dusk they retire
servitude)—forced labor
Kholmogori A r c t i c d e a t h to the prison’s Park of Inter-
Kauai Kauai Community Cor-
camp established by Lenin rogation where they apolo-
rectional Center at Lihue on
near Archangel in 1921 for gize to the memory of their
Kauai, Hawaii
the exploitation and suppres- victims and swear never to re-
Kaufering forced-labor sub-
camp in the south of Germany
sion of political prisoners in
peat their mistakes the Soviet Union
Kawasaki (see Japan’s pris-
Kalgoorlie Kalgoorlie Re- Kilby Kilby Corrections Facil-
ons)
gional Prison (Kalgoorlie, ity at Montgomery, Alabama
Kay-Cee Kay-Cee Honor Cen-
Western Australia) Kilmainham Dublin jail
ter in Kansas City, Missouri
Kincheloe Michigan site of the Kaluga Soviet prison 90 miles
KC Jackson County Jail in
Kinross Correctional Facility southwest of Moscow
Kansas City, Missouri
kindergarten of vice e p i t h e t Kampala (see Uganda)
KCCD Kentucky Council on
applied to many jails Kandy (see Sri Lanka)
Crime and Delinquency
King King County Jail in Seat- Kangaroo court p r i s o n e r s ’
KCJ King County Jail in Seat-
tle, Washington court imposing contributions,
tle, Washington
King’s Bench one of South- fines, and work tasks on con-
Kearney Nebraska location of
wark’s seven prisons, now all victs brought before it; nick-
the Youth Development Center
gone name for any small court
keester plant hollow supposi-
Kingston Canadian site of the harsh defendants
tory made of metal, plastic,
Collins Bay Institution as kanga(s) kangaroo(s)—Aus-
rubber, or wood and used to
well as the Joyceville Institti- tralian prison warden(s)
conceal contraband in the rec-
tion; (see Jamaica) Kansas City K a n s a s C i t y,
tum
Kingston Pen Kingston Peni- Kansas or Kansas City, Mis-
keester stash anything hidden
tentiary (and mental hospital) souri jails
in the rectum
Kendall juvenile-delinquent
in Portsmouth, Ontario
Kansas Correctional Institu-
Kingstown (see Saint Vincent tion in Lansing
rehabilitation center at Ken-
dall, Florida
and the Grenadines)
Kansas Correctional-Voca- Kinross Correctional Facility
near Kincheloe, Michigan Topeka Kansas jails the
Kent Kent Correctional Institu-
tional Training Center in
tion in Dover, Delaware
Kinston North Carolina site of
state’s 105 counties provide the Dobbs School for juvenile
Kent Institution maximum-se-
detention facilities; Wichita delinquents
curity penal facility in Agas-
and Topeka also have local Kiribati Tarawa, the capital of
siz, British Columbia
lockups this colony what was once
Kentucky Correctional Insti-
tution for Women at Pee-
Kansas State Industrial Refor-
HM Prison
matory in Hutchinson Kirikiri L a g o s , N i g e r i a ’s
wee Valley, site of the Assess-
Kansas State Penitentiary i n prison
ment and Orientation Unit
Kirkham H M P r i s o n a t Lansing
Kentucky lockups 120 coun-
ties have jails; cities such as
Kirkham in Lancashire, En-
Kansas State Reception and
gland Diagnostic Center i n To -
Louisville and Lexington
have augmented facilities as
Kirkland Correctional Institu-
tion in Columbia, South Kaohsiung (see China, Re-
peka
well
Carolina public of)
Kentucky Manpower Develop-
Kitakyushu (see Japan’s pris- kapidiye (Turkish—hardened
ment state agency charged
ons) criminals)—the most feared
with the task of developing a
prisoner rehabilitation pro-
KL Konzentrationslager
in prisons where they bribe
(German—concentration the guards and rule the other
gram
camp) —prisoners contracted inmates
Kentucky State Penitentiary
this to KZ Karachi (see Pakistan)
maximum-security prison at
Eddyville
klondike solitary prison cell
Corrections Facilities
KMCI Kettle Moraine Correc-
La Modelo La Carcel Modelo tional Institution (near Du-
LA Los Angeles penal institu-
(Spanish—The Model luth, Minnesota)
tions
Prison)—principal prison of KMD Kentucky Manpower
La Cabaña ( S p a n i s h — T h e
Caracas, Venezuela and Development (q.v.)
Cabin)—old Spanish prison
lamster(s) escaped convict(s) knowledge factory p r i s o n
at the entrance to Havana har-
Lancaster HM Prison at Lan- school
bor still used for the execution
caster in Lancashire, England Knoxville Knox County, Ten-
and imprisonment of political
or the jail in Lancaster, Penn- nessee’s jail
prisoners
sylvania, or jails in smaller Kobe (see Japan’s prisons)
La Ceiba prison in a seaport
Lancasters in Canada and the kogus (Turkish—cell block)—
city of Honduras on the Car-
United States; site of the (see turist kogus)
ibbean
Southeastern Ohio Training Kolyma USSR penal camp
LACJ Los Angeles County Jail
Center north of the Arctic Circle
(California)
La Ferté Macé French deten-
Lancaster Correctional Cen-
Korydallos prison in Athens,
ter at Trenton, Florida Greece
tion camp
Lancaster Pre-Release penal Kot Lakhpat jail in Lahore,
La Force top-security prison
facility in Lancaster, Massa- Pakistan
of Paris in the late 1700s and
chusetts Kragshovhede Danish prison
early 1800s
lag ticket-of-leave man; trans-
Land of Death and Chains
without high fences or walls;
Maxim Gorki’s nickname for this type of facility is said to
ported convict of the type
Siberia result in reduced recidivism;
Britain shipped to Australia
’Lando Orlando, Florida jail located near Skagen or Skaw
and Tasmania
Lager Westerbork t r a n s i t
Land of Political Exiles
Krems site of a World War II
Yakutia, Siberia concentration camp
camp established in the Dren-
Landsberg fortress prison on Kresty Leningrad’s central
the province of the Nether-
the Lech River in Upper Ba- prison
lands by German occupation
varia KRIM the Danish association
forces during World War II (see Durchgangslager)
Langholmen Swedish prison for penal reform
Langi Langi Kal Kal Youth Kriminalstrafkunde die Krim-
lagging serving a three-year
Training Centre at Trawalla, inalstrafkunde (German—pe-
sentence in a British prison;
Victoria, Australia KROM the Norwegian associ-
transportation by sea of con-
nology)
Lansing site of the Kansas ation for penal reform
victs from overcrowded jails
Correctional Institution and Krome Avenue address and
in the British Isles to those in
Australia and Tasmania
State Industrial Farm for nickname of the immigration
Lagoinha jail in Belo Hori-
the Kansas State Penitentiary;
Women at Lansing, Michigan camp on Krome Avenue in
zonte, Brazil
and naturalization detention
Lagos (see Nigeria)
La Grange site of the Ken-
’Lanta Atlanta, Georgia, jails, lockups, and federal peniten-
Miami, Florida
tucky State Reformatory as
well as the Luther Luckett
tiary Lantan Lantan Island (con-
KRUM the Swedish associa-
tains Ma Po Ping Prison serv- Kryukovo USSR prison col-
tion for penal reform
Correctional Complex
lag(s) transported convict(s)
ing Hong Kong) Lantana Florida site of the
ony
La Guaira Venezuelan jail
Lantana Correctional Institu- compound)—prison com-
Ktr Katorzhane (Russian— Lahore (see Pakistan)
tion pound for people sentenced to
Lake Butler Florida site of the
La Nuestra Familia ( S p a n - hard labor
Reception and Medical Cen-
ish-American jail jargon— Kuala Lumpur (see Malay-
ter
Our Family)—prison racke- sian prisons)
Lake Correctional Institute
teers who deal with homosex- Kuibyshev Russian transit prison
penal facility at Lowell, Flor-
ual prostitution, loan shark- Kulani Kulani Correctional
ida
ing, murder contracting, and Facility in Hilo, Hawaii
Lakehills Lakehills Commu-
narcotics; a Mexican-Amer- Kumasi (see Ghana’s prisons)
nity Corrections Center in
ican Mafia Kumla Kumla Prison, institu-
Salt Lake City, Utah
Laos has an old prison in Vi- tion for long-term prisoners in
La Mesa Penitenciaria
entiane built during the years south-central Sweden
(Spanish—La Mesa Peniten-
of French-colonial rule Kunie French penal colony in
tiary)—Baja California’s ma-
La Paz Bolivia’s capital high the Southwest Pacific
jor prison, in the eastern
in the Andes where prisoners Kuwait has prisons in Hawalli
section of Tijuana
get cool mountain air but very and Kuwait City
laminated glass p r i n c i p a l
little else; Mexico’s La Paz, Kyoto (see Japan’s prisons)
component of detention glaz-
ing (see detention glazing)
near the tip of Baja California
Corrections Facilities
La Pica (Spanish—the stone-
Lewes small jail just inside the cutters hammer; the pike or
Lawton Lawton, Oklahoma,
Delaware River breakwater the long lance of the pica-
Comanche County Jail
Lewisburg U.S. Penitentiary dor)—nickname of Venezu-
lazaretto hospital for conta-
at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania ela’s central penitentiary of
gious diseases; place of quar-
Lewisburg Plan the plan of Oriente
antine; tweendecks storeroom
the Lewisburg Penitentiary, La Pieota prison in Bogota,
sometimes used as a hospital
also called the telephone-pole Colombia
or even as a lockup if a vessel
design, providing for maxi- La Planta house of reeduca-
is without a brig
mum-and medium-security tion and artisan work in the
LCCC Lucas County Correc-
cells, inside and outside, re- El Paraiso section of Caracas,
tions Center (Ohio)
spectively Venezuela
LCCJ Louisiana Council on
Lex any Lexington or its cor- La Plata (see Argentina)
Criminal Justice
rectional facilities (see Lex- La Porte Noire (French—The
Leavenworth U.S. Peniten-
ington) Black Gate)—main entrance
tiary at Leavenworth, Kansas
Lexington Federal Correc- to the penal colony and prison
Lebanon Lebanon Correc-
tional institution at Lexing- in Saint Laurent du Maroni,
tional Institution in Lebanon,
ton, Kentucky; location of the nicknamed The Gate of Hell
Ohio; Middle-East republic,
Blackburn Correctional Com- La Roquette Parisian prison
has prisons in its capital,
plex as well as the special for women
Beirut, and in its port city of
units of the Danville Youth La Route Zéro (French—The
Tripoli
Development Center; Okla- Zero Route)—Road to No-
Leclerc Institution in Laval,
homa site of the Joe Harp where leading out of the Saint
Québec
Correctional Center and the Laurent du Maroni headquar-
Lecumberri-Hilton n i c k -
Lexington Assessment and ters built by convicts in
name of Mexico City’s
Reception Center; U.S. Pub- French Guiana over 50 years
Lecumberri prison
LAS Legal Aid Society
Leeds HM Prison at Leeds in
lic Health Service Hospital in
Lexington, Kentucky (drug Las Colinas L a s C o l i n a s
Yorkshire, England
detoxification facility) Girls’ Facility in Santee, Cal-
Leesburg location of the Lee
ley de fuga (Spanish—law of ifornia east of San Diego
Correctional Institution,
Georgia, New Jersey
flight)—privilege of law-en-
Las Palomas Las Palomas,
forcement officers to kill any- Chihuahua jail, Mexico
LEF Liberté, Égalité, Frater-
one attempting to escape last mile euphemism for the
nité ( F r e n c h — L i b e r t y,
Leyhill HM Prison at Leyhill walk from the prison cell to
Equality, Fraternity)—slogan
in Gloucestershire, England LGC Laminated Glass Corpo-
the place of execution
of the French Revolution, in-
last waltz condemned pris-
scribed in bronze over the
ration (see detention glazing) cution
LGD London Gaol Delivery Las Vegas (see Vegas)
oner’s march to place of exe-
gates of prisons built by the
French
Libby Libby Prison—con- Las Ventas ( S p a n i s h — T h e
Lefortovo prison in Moscow
verted tobacco warehouse in Stalls)—Madrid’s municipal
described in The Gulag Archi-
Richmond, Virginia, used to prison
pelago by Aleksander I
house Union prisoners during Latchmere House a remand
Solzhenitsyn
the Civil War center in Surrey, England
Leicester HM Prison at Le-
libéré ( F r e n c h — l i b e r a t e d latrinogram latrine rumor
icester in Leicestershire, En-
convict)—a prisoner free La Tuna Federal Correctional
gland
from confinement but not Institution at La Tuna, Texas
León (see Nicaragua)
free to leave the country of Laurel maximum-security ju-
Leopoldville (see Kinshasa)
confinement venile facility near Laurel,
Lesotho its capital, Meseru,
Liberia site of Monrovia and Maryland
has a lockup
Buchanan prisons Laval Ville de Laval, Quebec,
lethal gas method of execution
Liberty Center Ohio site of site of the Correctional De-
in California, Maryland, Mis-
the Maumee Youth Camp velopment Centre and the
sissippi, Missouri, Nevada,
Liberty Street city jail on Lib- Federal Training Centre as
North Carolina, Oregon,
erty Street in Louisville, Ken- well as the Leclerc Institution
Rhode Island, Wyoming
tucky Laval-des-Rapides E c o l e
lethal intravenous injection
Libreville (see Gabonese pris- Notre-Dame de Laval at La-
method of execution in Idaho,
ons) valdes-Rapides, Québec
New Mexico, Oklahoma,
Libya Tripoli (the capital) and Lawtey Florida site of the
Texas
Benghazi contain prisons Lawtey Correctional Institu-
Leuven Leuven Prison (also
built during its Italian occu- tion for older inmates with
called Louvain) in Belgium
pation from 1912 until the medical problems
level four death-dealing injec-
tion used by executioners
end of World War II
Corrections Facilities
Liechtenstein contains an old
Litchfield Community Correc-
long-term adult penal institu-
tions of the U.S. Bureau of Lieutenant of the Tower
prison in the capital, Vaduz
tional Center in Litchfield,
Prisons Atlanta, Georgia; Lieutenant of the Tower of
Connecticut
Leavenworth, Kansas; Lewis- London (its warden)
Little Rock Pulaski County
burg, Pennsylvania; Lompoc, lifeboat commutation of a
jail in Arkansas
California, Marion, Illinois; death sentence or a prison
Liverpool HM Prison at Liver-
Terre Haute, Indiana term; judicial order for a retrial
pool in Lancashire, England;
loopbelt restraining device lifer prisoner sentenced to life
jails in other places called
used in handling and trans- imprisonment
Liverpool as in New South
porting unruly prisoners git yuh nuttin’ (complaining
Wales, New York, and Nova
lifer’s lament gruntin’ don’
loquera (Spanish slang— is useless)
Scotia
Ljubljana (see Yugoslavia)
prison)—also called banasto Lihue port city on Kauai Is-
local lockup usually the police
or chirona land, Hawaii, and location of
station or county sheriff’s
Lorton Virginia site of the the Kauai Community Cor-
prison
Central Facility, the Maxi- rectional Center
lockup a small jail or prison
mum Security Facility, Youth likvidatsiya (Russian—liqui-
Lock-Up Tree name of a huge
Center I and II dation)—Soviet euphemism
hollow baobab tree in Derby,
Los Angeles metropolitan de- for execution
Australia; its 52-foot
tention center in Los Angeles, Lilongwe (see Malawi)
(16-meter) girth made it a nat-
California Lima L i m a , O h i o , A l l e n
ural lockup for prisoners
Los Guilucos Los Guilucos County Jail or Lima, Peru
locus penitentiae (Latin—place
School for (delinquent) Girls jails and prisons
of repentance)—penitentiary
at Santa Rosa, California Lima State Hospital in Lima,
Lodz (see Poland)
Los Lunas site of the Central Ohio offering felons psychi-
Logan Correctional Center
New Mexico Correctional Fa- atric services
in Lincoln, Illinois
Lomé (see Togo) cility and the Los Lunas Cor- Limón Costa Rican prison in
rectional Center Puerto Lim6n
Lompoc U.S. minimum-secu-
rity penitentiary and prison
Los Lunas Correctional Cen-
Lincoln HM Prison at Lincoln
ter in Los Lunas, New Mex- in Lincolnshire, England;
camp at Lompoc, California
ico, opened in 1940 to teach jails in fifty-one American cit-
London Ohio town containing
the London Correctional In-
ies named Lincoln; Nebraska
inmates farming and livestock site of four penal facilities—
operations the Diagnostic and Evalua-
stitution west of Columbus;
Loudonville Ohio site of the tion Center, the Lincoln Cor-
(see United Kingdom)
Long Bay Sydney, New South
Mohican Youth Camp rectional Center, the Ne-
Wales, Australian prison sys-
Loughan House penal facility braska State Penitentiary, and
tem, including the Central In-
in Blacklion, Ireland the Post Care Program
dustrial Prison, Her Majesty’s
Training Center, and the Par-
Lough Kesh location of Maze
Lincoln Correctional Center
Prison near Belfast, Northem for youthful offenders in Lin-
ramatta Gaol
Ireland coln, Nebraska
Long Beach Long Beach, Cal-
Louie Saint Louis, Missouri, Lincoln Hills School r e c e p -
ifornia jails, lockups, or Com-
jails, lockups, and other penal tion center and training
munity Treatment Center
facilities school in Irma, Wisconsin
long bid(s) long prison term(s)
louisette beheading device Lino Lakes site of the Minne-
Long Lane Long Lane School
perfected by Dr Antoine sota Correctional Facility
for (delinquent) Girls at Mid-
Louis of Paris at the sugges- Lipari Islands Italian islands
dletown, Connecticut
tion of his colleague Dr Jo- off the north coast of Sicily
Long Lartin HM Prison at
seph Ignace Guillotin; the re- and called Aeolian Islands
Long Lartin in Worcester-
shire, England
(Isole Eolie); for centuries, a
sulting device is called the
place of exile for hardened guillotine
Longos
(Mexican-American—
Long Beach, California)—
criminals and political prison-
Industrial School m i n i - Basiluzzo, Filicudi, Lipari,
nickname of the city, its
Louisiana Correctional and
ers; islands include Alicudi,
lockup, and jail, and the de-
mum-security facility for Salina, Stromboli, and Vul-
tention pens of the Immigra-
first-time young offenders cano
tion and Naturalization Ser-
held in De Quincy Liparis (see Lipari Islands)
vice
Longriggend Scotland’s Lon-
Louisiana Correctional Insti-
Lisbon (see Portugal)
tute for Women at St Gab- Lisieux maximum-security
griggend Remand Institution
riel for female felons 17 years prison in Lisieux, France
long stretch(es) long prison
sentence(s)
of age and up
Corrections Facilities
Louisiana lockups 6 4 p a r-
lag; one ship arrived with all ishes have holding facilitim
Luther Luckett Correctional
of its crew intact but all of its New Orleans and Baton
Complex i n L a G r a n g e ,
prisoners frozen to death Rouge have extra facilities for
Kentucky
Magdalena penal institute of felons
Luxembourg capital city con-
tains an old prison
the Argentine armed forces
Louisiana State Penitentiary
about 80 kilometers from maximum-security facility at
Luzira Kampala, Uganda’s
Buenos Aires Angola
prison
lynching executing someone
Magdeburg c o n c e n t r a t i o n
Louisiana Training Facility
camp subcamp southwest of juvenile-delinquent penal fa-
by mob rule rather than by the
Berlin cilities at Ball (for females),
rule of law; freeing a suspect
Magilligan prison near Lon- Baton Rouge, Bridge City,
in police custody (slang defi-
donderry in Northern Ireland and Monroe
nition describing encounters
Magilligan Camp HM prison Louisville Kentucky’s princi-
between gangs or mobs and
camp outside Belfast, pal city and county seat of
police)
Northem Ireland Jefferson County and its jail
Lynwood Lynwood (delin-
Ma Hang Ma Hang Prison, Lourenço Marques ( s e e
quent) Girls Center at An-
Hong Kong Mozambique)
chorage, Kentucky
M-2 Match-Two—program
Maidstone H M P r i s o n a t
Maidstone in Kent, England Louvain Belgium’s central
matching volunteers from a
community with prison in-
Maine Correctional Center
prison; here long-term prison-
penal facility in South ers work in open cells or in
mates; sponsors write to in-
Windham special workshops; called
mates and visit them regularly
Maine jails 16 counties main- Leuven by Flemish Belgians
with the aim of establishing
tain jails; cities such as Port- Lovelady Texas location of the
meaningful relationships and
land and Bangor have local Eastham Unit
providing convicts with refer-
lockups as well as county jails Lowdham Grange H M
ences and job support after
Maine State Prison a t T h o - Borstal at Lowdham Grange
they are paroled
maston holds incorrigibles in in Nottinghamshire, England
Maastricht Dutch maximum-
maximum security Lowell site of the Florida Cor-
security prison
Maine Youth Center in South rectional Institution and the
MAB Metropolitan Asylums
Portland holds delinquents Marion Correctional Institu-
Board (British group respon-
from 11 to 18 years of age tion
sible for administration of all
maison (French—house)— Low Newton remand center in
sorts of asylums)
also a jail or lockup (maison Durham, England
MacDougall Youth Correction
d’arrét ) or a borstal or reform LP Liverpool Prison
Center in Ridgeville, South
school (maison de correction) LTI Louisiana Training Insti-
Carolina
maison de arrêt ( F r e n c h — tute (branches at Baton Rouge,
MacLaren School in Wood-
prison) Monroe, and Pineville)
burn, Oregon holds juvenile-
maison de correction (French— Luanda prison in the People’s
court commitments in me-
house of correction)—peni- Republic of Angola
dium custody
tentiary, prison lubang buaya (Indonesian—
Macon Georgia location of the
Central Correctional Center
Maison de Correction St Ber-
crocodile hole)—Djakarta
nard Brussels, Belgium’s water hole infested with croc-
Macquarie Harbour inlet on
house of correction odiles and used as a place to
the west coast of Tasmania
maison de force ( F r e n c h — dispose of people
that in the early 1800s con-
workhouse)—prison where Lubianka Moscow headquar-
tained a penal colony on Set-
only those who work are fed ters of the Ministry of the In-
tlement Island; the entrance to
Maison Gomin women’s cor- terior—the former Soviet se-
the inlet was nicknamed the
Gates of Hell
rectional facility at St CyriIle,
cret police, named for the Québec
Madagascar’s prisons o l d
prisons are in the capital,
Maison Notre-Dame de la
one block from the Kremlin Garde jail for Catholic de-
founder of the Cheka; located
Antananarivo, and other
Lublin concentration camp in linquents ranging from 14 to
places such as Toamasina and
18 years of age at Cap-Rouge, Poland
Majunga
Québec Lucasville Southern Ohio Cor-
Madison Dane County jail,
Maison Tanguay women’s pe- rectional Facility at Lucas-
Wisconsin
nal establishment in Mont- ville
Madras (see Indian prisons)
real, Québec Lud Ludgate Prison in London
Madrid (see Spain)
Majdenek Nazi concentration long ago
Magadan port on the Sea of
camp near Lublin, Poland Lurigancho (see San Pedro)
Okhotsk where Soviet ships
Majunga (see Madagascar’s Lusaka (see Zambia)
delivered prisoners enroute to
forced labor camps in the Gu-
prisons)
Corrections Facilities
Makindye Uganda’s military
Maracaibo Venezuela prison prison
necticut, Georgia, Iowa, Ken-
tucky, Massachusetts, New
Marble Hill Bollinger County
making little ones out of big
jail at Marble Hill, Missouri ones [see rock crusher(s)]
York, Ohio, Tennessee, and
Marian Hall jail for English Malabar Malabar Complex of
Vermont
speaking juvenile-delinquent Prisons in Australia’s New
Manchester Community Cor-
females at Beaconsfield, South Wales
rections Center i n N ew
Québec Malaga (see Spain)
Hampshire
Marianna federal prison in Malang women’s prison in
Mandan site of the North Da-
western Florida eastern Java, Indonesia
kota Industrial School opened
Marigot (see Saint Martin) Malawi the capital, Lilongwe,
in 1903
Marina Street San Juan, Pu- and other cities, contain pn-
Manhattan Manhattan Island,
erto Rico’s district jail sons built by the British be-
center of New York City and
New York County; has several
Marion, Illinois; Marion Malaysia the capital, Kuala
tween 1881 and 1966
large correctional facilities
Marion U.S. Penitentiary at
County Detention Home for Lumpur, and cities such as
and many police-station lock-
juvenile delinquents in India- George Town have prisons
ups
napolis, Indiana; Marion Cor- built by the British between
Manhattan House of Deten-
rectional Institution, Marion, 1889 and 1904
tion Tombs Prison in lower
Ohio Malchow North German con-
Manhattan; nicknamed Down
Home
Marion Correctional Institu-
centration camp
manhunt hunt organized to
tion in Lowell, Florida,
Maldives the capital, Male,
once the Florida Correctional contains a prison built during
catch a criminal, an escapee,
Institution 1965)
a fugitive from justice, or
British dominion (1887–
even a person who is lost
Manila (see Philippines)
Marion Correctional Treat-
Mannheim Confinement Facil-
ment Center i n M a r i o n ,
Male (see Maldives)
Virginia Mali has a prison in Bamako
ity of the U.S. Seventh
Marquette Michigan site of Malines Belgian transit camp
Army in Mannheim, Ger-
the State House of Correction near the French border and
many
and Branch Prison man forces during World War
the North Sea built by Ger-
Manning Correctional Institu-
tion in Columbia, South
Marrakech (see Morocco)
Marshall site of a Confederate tration camp prisoners; also
II as a way station for concen-
Carolina
prison camp in northeast known as Mechlin
Manor English slang for Lon-
Texas Malmö (see Sweden)
don or its prisons
Marshalsea one of South- Malta the capital city and sea-
Mansfield site of the Ohio
wark’s seven prisons, now all port, Valetta, containing a
State Reformatory
gone, but formerly dominat- prison built during British
Mansions The Mansions in
ing much of this London dis- rule (1814–1964)
Brisbane, Queensland—Aus-
trict on the south bank of the manacle handcuff
tralia’s name for its Prison
River Thames Managua capital city of Nica-
Department
Martinez C o n t r a C o s t a ragua replete with a prison
Manzanar American reloca-
County courthouse and jail Manama capital city of Bahr-
tion center for Japa-
northeast of San Francisco, ain and its most-humid prison
nese-Americans detained in
California; location of one of Manbarco Man Barrier Cor-
California’s Owens Valley
many clandestine prisons in poration of Seymour, Con-
Manzanillo prison in Manza-
Argentina necticut engaged in manufac-
nillo, Mexico
Martinière combination cargo turing electronic detection
Manzini (see Swaziland)
and prison ship whose tween systems, and physical barriers
MAOF Mexican-American
decks and lower holds were made of coils of barbed wire
Opportunities Foundation
fitted with removable cages and knife-edged wire used to
(supporting a program to re-
for transporting convicts from keep prisoners within bounds
habilitate juvenile Chicano
France to French Guiana; the Manchester HM Prison at
recidivists)
vessel, built in 1911, was last Manchester in Lancashire,
Maplehurst Correctional Cen-
seen off Devil’s Island early England, New Hampshire lo-
tre in Milton, Ontario
in 1950 cation of the Manchester
Maple Lane School in Cen-
tralia, Washington south of
Maryland Correctional Insti-
Community Corrections Cen-
tutions started in 1931 as a ter, the New Hampshire Youth
Olympia
penal farm in Hagerstown Development Center; place of
Ma Po Ping Ma Po Ping Ad-
diction Centre on Lantau Is-
Maryland Correctional Insti-
detention in other cities
tution for Women in Jes- named Manchester in Con-
land, New Territories, Hong
Kong
sup
Corrections Facilities
Maryland Correctional PreR-
Maumee Youth Camp m a l e
McLaughlin Youth Center
elease System i n J e s s u p
Anchorage, Alaska’s diagnos- with supporting facilities in
juvenile-delinquent penal fa-
tic-program reception center Baltimore, Church Hill,
cility in Liberty Center, Ohio
for delinquents Hughesville, Quantico, and
Mauritania has an old prison
McNeil Island McNeil Island Sykesville
built during French-colonial
domination
Correctional Center in the state
Maryland Correctional Train-
of Washington (formerly a U.S. ing Center in Hagerstown
Mauritius Port Louis has an
old prison built by the British
maximum-security prison)
Maryland House of Correc-
that has held criminals as well
McNeil Island Correctional
Center formerly a federal Maryland jails the state’s 23
tion in Jessup
as political prisoners
prison turned over to the state counties provide lockups;
Mauthausen Austrian Nazi
of Washington in 1981 Baltimore has its own lockup
concentration camp near Linz
MCO Michigan Corrections facilities
Organization (of wardens) Maryland Penitentiary max-
maximum custody ke e p i n g
MDC Minnesota Department imum-security prison in Bal-
prisoners in penal institutions
of Corrections timore, next to the Reception
built with tool-proof bars and
meat wagon(s) prison van(s) Center
cells surrounded by high
Mecca (see Saudi Arabia) Marysville Ohio Reformatory
walls; maximum-security
Mecklenburg c o r r e c t i o n a l for Women in Marysville
prisons are manned by many
guards and are run on a plan
center at Boydton, Virginia MASCA M i d d l e A t l a n t i c
calling for rigid discipline
maximum security applied to
Medical Center for Federal
Prisoners at Springfield, States Correctional Associa-
Missouri tion
inmates considered danger-
ous to correctional officers, to others, and to themselves;
Medina (see Saudi Arabia)
Massachusetts Correctional
meditation solitary confine- Institutions B r i d g ewa t e r
ment holds alcoholics, criminally
prisoners awaiting the death
medium custody institutions insane, and sexually danger-
penalty are also kept under maximum security
designed to give freedom of ous felons; Cedar Junction is
Maximum Security Center
movement and greater scope
for positive self-direction Framingham contains fe-
a maximum-security facility;
in Columbia, South Carolina
Medium Security Facility i n males; others at Norfolk,
Maximum Security Facility
Cranston, Rhode Island South Carver, Orange, and
in Smyrna, Delaware; also in
Medium Security Unit a t Concord
Cranston, Rhode Island
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, usu- Massachusetts lockups 1 4
Maxwell Federal Prison Camp
ally holding first-term felons counties provide imprison-
at Maxwell Air Force Base
within a half-year of release ment facilities; Boston has
near Montgomery, Alabama
Melilla (see Spain) penal facilities of its own
Mazatlan prison in Mazatlan,
México
meltout escape technique used
Massachusetts State Prison
in some modern prisons (see South Walpole)
Maze Maze (top-security)
where certain types of doors Massawa (see Ethiopia’s pris-
Prison outside Belfast in
and windows can be melted ons)
Northern Ireland
Memphis F e d e r a l C o r r e c - Massilon Ohio town holding
Mbabane (see Swaziland)
tional Institution at Memphis, the Indian River School for
Tennessee; and the Women’s male juvenile delinquents
MCA Massachusetts Correc-
Correctional Center in Mem- Matamoros the Tamaulipan
tional Association (Boston-
phis city maintains one of the
based); Medical Correctional
Menard Menard. Correctional world’s dirtiest jails
Association; Minnesota Cor-
center in Menard, Illinois; the Matanzas (see Cuba)
rections Authority; Missouri
Menard Matrah (see Oman)
Corrections Association
McAlester site of the Okla-
homa State Penitentiary
Menard Time prisoner’s pub- lication issued by the Menard
Matsqui Institution B r i t i s h
branch of the Illinois State Columbia’s minimum-secu-
MCC Metropolitan Correc-
Penitentiary rity facility for drug addicts at
tional Center (in Chicago,
Mende maximum-security Abbotsford
New York, and San Diego)
prison in southern France Matteawan Matteawan State
McCain North Carolina Prison
menschenhandel (German— Hospital (for the criminally
Sanitorium at McCain in
trade in people)—prisoner insane) near Beacon-on-Hud-
Hoke County
exchange program son, New York
MCDC Montgomery County
Men’s Reformatory in Ana- Maui Maui Community Cor-
Detention Center (Maryland)
mosa, Iowa rectional Center at Wailuki on
MCI Massachusetts Correc-
Merced Merced County jail in Maui Island, Hawaii
tional Institution (Framing-
ham)
California
Corrections Facilities
Mercer Pennsylvania Correc-
Michigan Training Unit a t
Minnesota Correctional Facil-
tions Department prison in
ities at Lino Lakes, Oak Mercer County
Ionia
Park Heights, Red Wing, Merida prison in Merida,
Midlands Reception and Eval-
Saint Cloud, Sauk Center, capital of the Mexican state
uation Center in Colum-
Shakopee, and Stillwater (see of Yucatan; or the Merida in
bia, South Carolina
individual entries) Venezuela meritorious good time prom-
Mid-Orange M i d - O r a n g e
Correctional Facility at War-
Minnesota lockups 87 coun-
ties have jails; Minneapolis, ise of parole-induced good
Saint Paul, and Duluth have behavior on the part of con-
wick, New York
extra facilities for felons victs wanting to get out of
Midway Texas site of the Fer-
Minnie Minneapolis, Minne- prison
guson Unit for first offenders
sota or its jails, lockups, or Meseru (see Lesotho)
Milan Federal Correctional
prisons Met Metropolitan Correctional
Center at Milan, Michigan
Mirikiri L a g o s , N i g e r i a ’s Center in San Diego, Califor-
Miles City Montana site of the
prison nia
Pine Hills School for juvenile
misdemeanant person con- metanoia change of heart and
delinquents
victed or guilty of misde- mind required for criminal re-
Milford Delaware’s penal fa-
meanors habilitation
cility for juvenile delin-
Missie Mississippi or its jails, Metro Metro Correctional In-
quents; also known as Steven-
lockups, and prisons stitution in Atlanta, Georgia
son House
Mission Institution medium- holds emotionally disturbed
milieu therapy t r e a t m e n t
security facility in Mission, inmates in close security while providing psychiatric
British Columbia Mississippi jails the state’s 82 services
given to aid convicts return-
ing to society via halfway
houses, pre-release guidance
counties have prison facili-
Metropolitan Correctional
ties; Jackson has additional Centers Chicago, Illinois;
centers, and tranquilizing
detention facilities New York, New York; San Di-
drugs
military execution execution
Mississippi State Peniten-
ego, California
by a military firing squad .
tiary in Parchman; inmates
Metropolitan Regional Institu-
are offered a supervised tion in Bayamón, Puerto
milk van nickname for police
earned-release, work-release Rico
or sheriff’s van for transport-
program of rehabilitation Mexicali capital of Baja Cali-
ing prisoners
Missiyahu Israeli minimum- fornia, and its jail
Millhaven Institution m a x i -
security prison offering in- Mexican Mafia controls much
mum-security facility in Bath,
mates a work-release pro- of the narcotic trafficking in
Ontario
gram during their pre-release California prisons such as
period Chino, Folsom, and San
Milton Ontario site of the
Adult Training Centre and the
Missouri Eastern Correctional
Center in Pacific can prisons
Quentin; also active in Mexi-
Maplehurst Correctional
Centre
Missouri Intermediate Refor-
México nation with a long
matory for male felons record of horrible prisons;
Milwaukee M i lwa u ke e
from 17 to 25 who are held in Mexico City contains some
County Jail in Milwaukee,
Jefferson City of its most formidable penal
Wisconsin
Missouri jails 114 counties facilities
Mimico Mimico Correction
contain prison facilities; St Miami city lockups, Dade
Center (for males) in Toronto,
Louis and other big cities County Jail, or the Federal
Ontario
have additional jails Correctional Institution, the
M-in-C Matron-in-Chief
Mineola Nassau County Jail in
Missouri State Penitentiary
for Men in Jefferson City Mich Michigan, Michoacan,
Miami Detention Center
Mineola, New York
Minidoka relocation center for
Missouri Training Center for
Men in Moberly Michigan City Indiana State
or their jail’s and prisons
Mitchellville Iowa Training Prison at Michigan City
Japanese-Americans interned
after Pearl Harbor in southern
School for (delinquent) Girls
Michigan Dunes Correctional
at Mitchellville Facility in Holland, Michi-
Idaho
Moabit Berlin’s great prison in gan
minimum custody honor dor-
the Tiergarten section Michigan jails 8 3 c o u n t i e s
mitories, prison camps, and
Mob Mobile, Alabama or its provide detention facilities;
prison farms offering inmates
penal facilities Detroit and other cities have
as much freedom from re-
Moberly site of the Missouri additional lockups
straint as possible while pre-
Training Center for Men Michigan Reformatory i n
venting their escape
Mobile Mobile County jail in Ionia
Minimum Security Facility
in Cranston, Rhode Island
Alabama
Corrections Facilities
Mobtown Baltimore, Mary-
Mountain Institution i n land or its jails, lockups, and
location of a number of penal
Agassiz, British Columbia, other penal facilities
institutions including those in
designed for holding aged in- Modelo one of Bogotá, Co-
adjacent Ville de Laval
mates lombia’s prisons
Montreal House of Detention
Mountain View M o u n t a i n Modesto Stanislaus County
at 800 Boulevard Gouin
View School for female juve- jail east of San Francisco,
Montreal Prevention Centre
nile delinquents in Helena, California
on Parthenia Street
Montana Moengo (see Suriname)
Montrose School for Girls
Mount Eden M o u n t E d e n Mogadishu (see Somalia)
correctional facility at Reiser-
Prison, Auckland, New Mohican Youth Camp i n
stown, Maryland
Zealand Loundonville, Ohio
Monty Montgomery, Alabama
Mountjoy M o u n t j oy G a o l Monaco has only a lockup
or its jail and lockups
(Dublin’s jail) Mongolia the capital, Ulan Ba-
Moon Crescent Singapore’s
Mount McGregor M o u n t tor, was once known as Urga
minimum-security prison
and contains a prison of an- McGregor Correctional Facil- cient construction
Moondyne Joe A u s t r a l i a n
ity near Warwick, New York Monowitz forced-labor sub-
bushranger who was the first
man to cross the Swan River
Mount Pleasant Iowa loca-
camp close to Auschwitz, Po- tion ofthe Medium Security
Bridge in Fremantle near
land Unit
Perth while escaping from jail
Monroe site of the Louisiana Mount View Girls School a t
Moor The Moor—Dartmoor
Training Institute at Monroe; Morrison, Colorado
Prison near Princetown in De-
site of the Washington State Mozambique all its coastal Penitentiary, the Washington
vonshire, England
cities (Beira, Chinde, and its State Reformatory, and the
Moor Court HM Prison at
capital, Lourenço Marques) Washington State Special Of-
Moor Court in Staffordshire,
contain prisons of Portuguese fender Center
England
origin Monrovia Monrovia Central
Morelia prison in Morelia,
MPP M o t h e r s i n P r i s o n Prison (Liberia’s largest penal
capital of the Mexican state of
Projects facility)
Michoacan
MPPCA Maryland Probation, Monsieur de Paris (French—
Morgan Morgan County Re-
Parole and Corrections Asso- Mr. Paris)—the guillotine op-
gional Correctional Facility
ciation erator
in Wartburg, Tennessee
MR Michigan Reformatory in Montana jails the state’s 57 counties offer detention facil-
Morgantown Federal Correc-
tional Institution at Morgan-
town, West Virginia
Ionia
MRC Minnesota Restitution ities Montana State Prison at Deer
Moriah Moriah Shock Correc-
tional Facility, New York
Center MTU Michigan Training Unit
(reform school) Montenegro (see Yugoslavia)
Lodge
Morocco France and Spain
built prisons in cities such as
mule smuggler carrying con- Monterrey prison in Monterey,
Casablanca, Fez, Marrakech,
traband such as heroin or Nuevo León
Rabat, and Tangier
weapons into jails and prisons Montevideo Uruguay’s capital
capital of the Mexican state of
Moroni (see Comoros)
Mulegé Mexican minimum- containing jails and a prison
Morrison Mount View School
security prison in Baja Cali- Montey Allenwood Federal
for (delinquent) Girls at Mor-
fornia where convicts are free Prison Camp at Allenwood,
rison, Colorado
to roam about during the day Pennsylvania
Morro Castle (see Habana)
and many find work in local Montgomery Federal Prison
Morton Hall HM Borstal at
enterprises, so very few ever Camp at Montgomery, Ala-
Morton Hall in Lincolnshire,
attempt escape bama or its county jail or the
England
Mother of Prison Reform
multiprisoner transportation
Kilby Corrections Facility
unit paddy wagon; police (see Kilby)
Dorothea Dix (1802–1887),
patrol van; prison van Montjuic Montjuic Castle in
American reformer active in
Muncy Pennsylvania site of Spain has been used as a court
Massachusetts and other
the State Correctional Institu- to try anarchist assassins and
states
tion for female felons to hold them in its deep dun-
Mothers in Prison Projects
Muntinlupa Philippine prison geons
organization affiliated with
southeast of Manila (also Montluc French greystone
Women in Jails and Prisons
spelled Muntinglupa) prison in Lyons
Motown Motor Town (Detroit,
Muscat (see Oman) Montreal Maison Tanguay cor-
Michigan) or its penal facili-
musical execution execution rectional facility for women
ties
performed to the roll of a field prisoners in Montreal, Québec;
Moundsville location of the
West Virginia Penitentiary
drum or tenor drums
Corrections Facilities
Muskegon Michigan site of
Natzweiler forced-labor con- the Muskegon Correctional
the Spencer Youth Center, the
centration camp in eastern Facility
Tennessee Prison for Women,
the Tennessee State Prison
France
Muskegon Correctional Facil-
Nauru the capital, Yaren, has a ity Michigan penal facility
Nassau capital of the Bahamas
small lockup Mutual Welfare League con-
on New Providence Island
Navasota Texas location of the vict self-government system
and toponym for its jail
Grimes County penal facility introduced by Warden Tho-
National Association of Train-
NCA Nebraska Correctional mas Mott Osborne at Sing
ing Schools and Juvenile
Association; Nevada Correc- Sing and later introduced at
Agencies (NATSJA) cre-
tional Association the U.S. Naval Prison at
ated by the merger of the Na-
NCCA North Carolina Correc- Portsmouth, New Hampshire
tional Association of Training
tional Association MWL (see Mutual Welfare
Schools and the National Con-
NCCD National Council on League)
Crime and Delinquency NAAWS North American As-
ference of Juvenile Agencies
NCCJPA National Clearing- sociation of Wardens and Su-
National Clearinghouse for
Criminal Justice Planning
house for Criminal Justice perintendents
Planning and Architecture NAB National Alliance of
and Architecture (NC-
NCJRS National Criminal Businessmen (giving ex-con-
C J PA )
maintains a
Justice Reference Service victs a chance by giving them
10,000-volume library at the
NCPPL National Committee jobs)
University of Illinois at
Champaign
on Prisons and Prison Labor
NACRO National Association NCRA National Correctional
National Correctional Recre-
for the Care and Resettlement Recreation Association of Offenders
ation Association (NCRA)
NCW Nebraska Center for NADPAS National Associa-
sponsors prison postal-
Women (in York, Nebraska) tion of Discharged Prisoners’
weight-lifting contests for in-
N’Djamena (see Chad) Aid Societies
mates in Canada and the
NDPS Narcotic Detention Nafha Israel’s top-security
United States
Pens in downtown New York prison
National Jail Association
City Nagoya (see Japan’s prisons)
presents annual award for the
outstanding jailer and jail ma-
Nebraska Center for Women
Nail City Wheeling, West Vir-
in York gima noted for its nail fac-
tron; publishes Jail Forum
Nebraska lockups 93 coun- tory; nickname for its deten-
quarterly
ties contain jails; Omaha has tion facilities
National Jail Managers Asso-
additional detention facilities Nairobi Kenya’s capital and
ciation maintains historical
archives plus an information
Nebraska State Penitentiary
nickname of its prison once
in Lincoln called HM Prison Nairobi
clearinghouse and library in
NECCC New England Cor- NAJCA National Association
Eugene, Oregon
rectional Coordinating Coun- of Juvenile Correctional
National Juvenile Detention
cil Agencies
Association p u b l i s h e s
necktie hangman’s noose NAJJ National Assessment of
Counterpoint bimonthly and
necktie hanger gallows Juvenile Justice (University
the Directory of Juvenile De-
Nepal Himalayan nation with of Michigan)
tention Homes
an ancient prison in Kath- Nakhodka port near Vladivos-
National Prison Project Amer-
mandu tok and a Gulag transit center
ican Civil Liberties Union’s
program to fix prison sen-
Netherlands has both ancient and modern prisons in cities
tences and improve the lot of
such as Amsterdam, Rotter- Namibia Wa l v i s B a y a n d
’Nam Vietnam or any of its
many jails and prisons
dam, the Hague, and Utrecht Windhoek, the capital, have
prisoners
national razor nickname for
the guillotine
Netherlands Antilles a l l i s - lands have small lockups and
a low crime rate Napanoch site of the Eastern
HM Gaol prisons
National Sheriff official pub-
Neuengamme concentration New York Correctional Facil-
lication of the National Sher-
camp near Hamburg ity
iffs’ Association
National Society of Penal
Nevada Girl’s Training Cen-
NAPO National Association of
ter in Caliente Probation Officers
Information provided some
Nevada jails the state’s 16 NAPV National Association of
of the first aides of the Bureau
counties have lockups; Las Prison Visitors
of Prisons and later became
Vegas, Reno, and Carson City Nashville Tennessee site of the
part of the Osborne Associa-
have extra detention capabil- Lois Deberry Correctional In-
tion
ity stitute, the Nashville Re-
NATSJA (see National Associ-
ation of Training Schools and
Nevada Women’s Correctional
gional Correctional Facility,
Juvenile Agencies)
Center in Carson City
Corrections Facilities
Neve Tirza Israeli maximum-
Niantic Connecticut Correc- security prison for women
New Life New Life House (for
tional Institution farm and New Albany minimum-secu-
prisoner rehabilitation at Tam
prison in Niantic; the J. Ber- rity jail in New Albany, Indi-
Lung Chung, New Territories,
nard Gates Correctional Unit ana
Hong Kong)
NIC National Institute of Cor- New Braintree medium-secu-
New Lon(don) New London,
rections (U.S. Department of rity prison in New Braintree,
Connecticut, detention facili-
Justice in Boulder, Colorado) Massachusetts
ties
Nicaragua capital, Managua, Newc Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
New Mexico Boys School i n
and cities such as Bluefields England, detention facilities
Springer
and León have cárceles New Caledonia French penal
New Mexico lockups 3 2
counties have jails
modelos Niceville former name of the
colony in the South Pacific
Niceville Road Prison before from 1864 to 1894, when it
New Mexico Youth Diagnostic
it was moved to Crestview, was moved to French Guiana
Center in Albuquerque
Florida where it is now New Era prisoner’s newspaper
New Orleans parish seat has
known as the Okaloosa Cor- published at Leavenworth,
and jail plus police-station
rectional Center Kansas
lockups
Nickerie (see Suriname) Newgate London prison razed
New Queens newer section of
Nicosia capital of Cyprus as by rioters more than a century
the Riker’s Island Peniten-
well as the popular name for ago, now the site of the Old
tiary in New York City
its old prison Bailey law courts, officially
Newton Iowa site of the River-
Nigeria capital, Lagos, con- called the Central Criminal
view Release Center
tains an old prison built by the Courts
New Westminster C a n a d i a n
British Newgate’s Angel E l i z a b e t h
maximum-security facility at
nippers chain-grip-actuated Gurney Fry—lay visitor
New Westminster, British Co-
handcuffs Newgit nickname for Lon-
lumbia
NJA National Jail Association don’s old Newgate Prison
New York any of many penal
NJDA National Juvenile De- New Hampshire jails 10 coun-
institutions in either New
tention Association ties maintain lockups; its cit-
York City or New York State
NJMA National Jail Managers ies also have extra detention
New York lockups the state’s
Association facilities
62 counties contain jails; all
cities have extra detention fa-
NJRW New Jersey Reforma-
New Hampshire State Prison
tory for Women at Clinton in Concord
cilities
New York School for Girls at
NO New Orleans, Louisiana’s jail and police-station lockups
New Hampshire Youth Develop-
Hudson, New York
Nogal(es) Nogales, Sonora jail ment Center in Manchester;
New York State Commission of
in México delinquents in all stages of se-
Correction inspects and monitors the many correc-
Nome Nome State Jail in curity between 11 and 18
Alaska years of age
tional facilities, community
Noranside Noranside Borstal New Haven Community Cor-
residential facilities, secure
Institution in Scotland rectional Center in New Ha-
centers, secure detention cen- ters, detention institutions,
Norf Norfolk (in Canada, En- ven, Connecticut, also the site
gland, the South Pacific, or of the county jail
sentence institutions, and
the United States) or any of New Hebrides (see Vanatu)
county jails, municipal lock-
its detention facilities New Jersey jails 21 counties
Norfolk Massachusetts site of have lockups; Newark and
ups, and state prisons
the Bay State Correctional Jersey City have additional
New York State Correctional
Center and the Massachusetts jails
Facilities Albion, Arthur
Kill, Attica, Auburn, Bedford
Hills, Clinton, Coxsackie,
Correctional Institution; State
New Jersey State Prison—
Prison Colony in Norfolk, Leesburg in use since 1913
Eastern, Elmira, Fishkill,
Massachusetts (first commu-
for male felons nity prison for male felons);
Great Meadows, Green Ha-
ven, Ossining, Taconic,
New Jersey State Prison—
Virginia seaport city or its
county jail or naval brig Rahway a prison for male
Wa l l k i l l , Wo o d b o u r n e ,
Northallerton HM Prison at felons
Downstate, Hudson, Mid-Or-
Northallerton in North Ridg- New Jersey State prisons i n
ange, Mount McGregor, Otis-
ing, Yorkshire, England Leesburg, Rahway, and
ville, Queensboro
New Zealand HM Gaols in
North Carolina Department of
Trenton
cities such as Christchurch,
Correction maintains state-
New Jersey State Prison—
wide coverage through its Di- Trenton built in 1798 but
Auckland, and Wellington
vision of Prisons and its Youth replaced in 1836
Nha Trang (see Vietnam)
Niamey (see Niger)
Services Division
Corrections Facilities
North Carolina jails 100 coun-
NY Met New York Metropoli- ties contain lockups; cities
NPCC Nebraska Penal and
tan Correctional Center (in have extra facilities
Correctional Complex
NPP (see National Prison
downtown Manhattan)
North Central Correctional
NYRM New York Reforma- Institution a t G a r d n e r,
Project)
tory for Men Massachusetts
NPPAJ National Probation
and Parole Association Jour-
NYRW New York Reforma-
North Dakota Industrial
tory for Women (Westfield School in Mandan seeks to
nal
Farm) reform delinquents from 12 to
NPSB National Prisoner Sta-
tistics Bulletin
NYSDCS New York State De-
partment of Correctional Ser- North Dakota lockups t h e
18 years of age
NRTI National Rehabilitation
vices state has 53 counties provid-
Training Institute
Oahu capital island of Hawaii ing jails
NSA National Sheriffs Associ-
ation
containing Honolulu, Pearl
North Dakota Penitentiary
Harbor, and the Oahu Com- in Bismarck
NSPI National Society of Pe-
nal Information
munity Correctional Center
North Dakota State Farm
Oakalla prison in Burnaby, a near Bismarck
Nuestra Familia (Spanish—
suburb of Vancouver, British Northern Ireland (see indi-
Our Family)—Mexican-
Columbia vidual entries)
American prison-based un-
derground organization en-
Oakdale Federal Detention
Northern Nevada Correctional
Center, Oakdale, Louisiana; Center prison farm near
gaged in narcotic trafficking
site of the Iowa Security and Carson City
and jail breaks
Nuevo Guerrero Nuevo Guer-
Medical Facility
Northern Nevada Honor
rero, Tamaulipas, jail
Oakhill Correctional Center
Camp near Carson City
Nuevo Laredo Nuevo Laredo,
Northern Region Correction
in Oregon, Wisconsin Institute Alaskan facility at
Nuevo León, jail
Oakie City Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma’s correctional fa- Fairbanks
Nuku’alofa (see Tonga)
Northern Rhodesia ( s e e
nullum crimen sine lege
cilities Oakland Oakland, Califor-
Zambia)
(Latin—no crime without
Northeye HM Prison at North-
nia’s jails or its Community eye in Sussex, England
law)—crime must be defined
by law
Treatment Center
Northside Correctional Cen-
Oakley Campus’ (see Ray- ter in Spartanburg, South
number-one diet bread and
mond) Carolina
water
Oak Park Heights site of the Norway modern penal facili-
Nuremberg forced-labor sub-
Minnesota Correctional Fa- ties are in or near such port
camp in the south of Ger-
cility cities as Oslo, the capital,
many, close to the site of the
OAR (see Offender Aid and Bergen, and Trondheim
Nuremberg Trials of war
Restoration) Norwich HM Prison at Nor-
criminals
Oaxaca prison in Oaxaca, wich, England; jails in Nor-
Nusa Kambangan I n d o n e -
Mexico wich, Connecticut and
sian island prison off the city
obc old brutal con(vict) smaller towns named Nor-
of Tjilatjap (Cilacap) where a
Obispo California Men’s Col- wich
crocodile-infested marsh, be-
ony at San Luis Obispo Not-So-Nice-Ville ( s e e
tween island and mainland,
Oblatos jail in Guadalajara, NiceVille)
discourages escape
Mexico Nottingham HM Prison at
nut factory section of a prison
OCA Oregon Corrections As- Nottingham in Nottingham-
where criminally insane con-
sociation shire, England
victs are held
Ocala Florida location of the Nou island prison of Nouvelle
nuthouse psychiatric ward
Alyce D. McPherson School Calédonie in the South Pacific
nutpicker psychiatrist
for juvenile delinquents Nouakchott capital of Mauret-
nvd night-viewing device(s)
Occoquan Minimum Security ania and site of its old prison
n-v device night-viewing de-
vice
Facility of the District of Co-
Nouvelle Calédonie
lumbia located in Virginia (French—New Caledonia)—
NYCCIW New York City Cor-
OCCSA Ohio Correctional and penal colony from 1864 to
rectional Institution for
Court Services Association 1894 when its prisoners were
Women
OCF Ossining Correctional shipped to French Guiana
NYCDC New York City De-
partment of Correction
Facility (Sing Sing) at Ossin-
Nova Scotia School for Girls
ing, New York at Truro, Nova Scotia
NYHD New York House of
OCIS Organized Crime Infor- NP Naval Prison
Detention
mation System (FBI) NPB National Parole Board
Nykobing Danish prison
OCJA Oklahoma Criminal (Canada)
NYMCC New York Metropol-
itan Correctional Center
Justice Association
Corrections Facilities
Odenville state prison north-
Ont Pen Ontario Penitentiary east of Birmingham, Alabama
Oklahoma State Penitentiary
(Canadian) Odessa Ukraine city on the
in McAlester
ooze out sneak out Black Sea with typical prison
Oklahoma State Reformatory
open prison p e n a l fa c i l i t y facilities; its namesake in
in Granite
built without bars on the win- west Texas contains the Ector
Old Capitol Old Capitol Prison
dows, locks on the doors, or County jail
in Washington, DC where po-
walls surrounding the prison Odom Jackson, North Caro-
litical prisoners were held dur-
Oran (see Algeria) lina penal facility
ing the Civil War
Old Dorp Schenectady, New
Odum Georgia site of the
Oranienburg concentration Wayne Correctional Institution
York or its detention facilities
old hand Australian nickname
camp near Berlin
Offender Aid and Restoration
Orchid Island Rehabilitation conducts CIP (Citizens In-
Center on Orchid Island off volvement Project to educate
for former convict
southeastern tip of Taiwan and train civic leaders and
Old Horse Bridewell Prison
old lag person serving a three-
(Formosa) sheriffs in the use of volun-
year sentence in a British
Ordinary of Newgate C h a p - teers in jails
prison
lain of Newgate Jail Ogden Utah site of the Ogden
Old Melbourne Gaol and
ordinary transportation o n - Community Corrections Cen-
Penal Museum M e l -
foot transportation of prison- ter and the Parkview Commu-
bourne, Victoria makes the
ers nity Corrections Center
most out of a bad beginning
Ordot Guam’s penitentiary at Ohio jails 88 counties have
Old Newgate Prison p e n o -
Ordot prison facilities; cities, such as
logical museum on Newgate
Oregon Wisconsin site of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Co-
Road in East Granby, Con-
Oakhill Correctional Institu- lumbus, have additional jails
necticut
Old Queens older section of
tion and the Wisconsin Cor-
Ohio Reformatory for
rectional Camp System Women in Marysville
the Riker’s Island Peniten-
Oregon jails the state’s 36 Ohio State Ohio State Peni-
tiary in New York City
counties have prisons; Port- tentiary in Columbus, also
old smoky electric chair
called River House land and Eugene have aug-
Old Sparkey Florida’s natural
oak electric chair
Ohio State Reformatory i n
mented facilities Mansfield, Ohio
Old Territorial Old Territorial
Penitentiary in Santa Fe, New
Oregon State Correctional
Ohrdruf Thuringian town in
Institution in Salem central Germany and site of a
Oregon State Penitentiary i n concentration camp as well as
Mexico
Olustee Florida site of the
1853 opened in Portland but the underground headquarters
Baker Correctional Institution
transferred to Salem in 1866 of the German army during
Oma Omaha, Nebraska’s jail
Oman Muscat and Matrah
Oregon Women’s Correctional
Center in Salem; began in Oil City nickname of Bartles-
World War II
have small prisons
1965 as a section of the Ore- ville or Tulsa in Oklahoma
Omdurman (see Sudan)
gon State Penitentiary jails; name of a town in west-
Omsk czarist prison near Ka-
Oriente Mexico City prisoner- ern Pennsylvania and its jail
zakhstan; the punishments in-
holding facility OIPC Organisation Internatio-
flicted on prisoners here are
Oroville Butte County jail in nale de Police Criminelle
described in Dostoevski’s
Oroville, California (French—International Crim-
Notes from the House of the
ORW Ohio Reformatory for inal Police Organization)—
Dead
Women Interpol
on the bricks out of jail and
Osaka (see Japan’s prisons) Ojinaga Ojingaga, Chihua-
on the streets
hua, jail Oslo (see Norway)
on the ground out of jail
on ice imprisoned
Okaloosa (see Niceville)
Ossining Ossining Correc- Okeechobee location of the
tional Facility (formerly Florida School for juvenile
on the lam escaping, evading,
known as Sing Sing) at Ossin- delinquents
or hiding from the police or
ing, New York Okie Oklahoma(n) or any of its
other law-enforcement agents
Onley HM Borstal at Onley in
Osteraker Swedish prison in penal facilities
Warwickshire, England
Osteraker near Stockholm Okinawa Okinawa Prison in
Only Tennessee site of the Tur-
Ostrava (see Czechoslovakia) the Ryukyu Islands of Japan;
ney Center for Youthful Of-
Ostroy Vrangelya (Russian— (see USMC)
fenders from 18 to 25 years
Wrangel Island)—Soviet Oklahoma lockups 77 coun-
of age
prison camp northwest of ties have prisons; extra facil-
Ontario Youth Training-School
Alaska and north of north- ities are found in Oklahoma
at Ontario, California
eastern Siberia in the Chuk- City and Tulsa
on the shelf in solitary con-
finement
chi Sea
Corrections Facilities
Oswiecim Polish name for
Park Row Metropolitan Cor- Auschwitz, site of a World
palacio blanc ( S p a n i s h —
rectional Center in New York War H concentration camp
white palace)—nickname of
City operated by the Nazis
Mexico city’s most modern
Parkside New York State Cor- Otay Otay Mesa Prison in
prison; it has cement-floored
rectional Facility in Manhat- southernmost California
steel-lined cells plus baths, a
tan Otay Mesa prison Richard J
hospital, and a library
Parkview Parkview Commu- Donovan Correctional Facil-
Palacio Negro ( S p a n i s h —
nity Corrections Center in ity south of San Diego, Cali-
Black Palace)—nickname for
Ogden, Utah fornia
Mexico’s Lecumberri prison
parole conditional release of other prisoner(s) c o r r e c -
Palais de Justice (French—
tional officer(s); prison an offender from a confine-
Palace of Justice)—Parisian
guard(s), warden(s), etc. ment facility before the expi-
court and prison
Otisville Otisville Correc- ration of his or her sentence;
Palmer Palmer Correctional
released offender usually put tional Facility at Otisville,
Center northeast of Anchor-
New York under supervision of a parole
age, Alaska
oubliette (French—secret dun- agency or officer
Palmer Work-Release Center
geon)—cell with a trapdoor in parole agency c o r r e c t i o n a l
in Florence, South Carolina
its roof so convicts can be agency supervising convicts
Panamá Panamá City, Colón,
lowered into its hole on parole
David, and San Miguelito all
Outlaw bimonthly publication parole authority correctional
have so-called model prisons
of the Prisoner’s Union agency or officer having au- outside outside of prison
Panamanian prisons ( s e e
Cárcel Modelo, Cueva, and
thority to release prisoners
out of town in prison committed to confinement fa-
Gamboa)
over the blue wall confined to cilities or to discharge them
Pango Pago Pago, American
from parole or to revoke pa- insane
a hospital for the criminally
Samoa or its jail
role Oxford Federal Correctional
Pankrác Prague’s prison
parolee person conditionally Institution at Oxford, Wis-
panopticon prison where all
released from a correctional consin, a Staff Training Cen-
cells are visible from a central
institution before the expira- ter of the Bureau of Prisons;
point
tion of his or her sentence and HM Prison at Oxford in Ox-
panopticon pattern based on
placed under the supervision fordshire, England; some
Bentham’s panopticon in-
of a parole agency or officer twenty other Oxfords in
spection house where giant
parole violation p a r o l e e ’s America have jails
circular prison houses were
failure to conform to the con- Ozark Ozark Correctional
manned by armed guards who
ditions of parole; such viola- Center in Fordland, Missouri
could supervise the surround-
tion usually results in return PA Pardon Attorney (U.S. De-
ing cells and their inmates;
to prison and loss of parole partment of Justice) PAA Prisoners Aid Associa-
the Stateville penal establish- ment in Illinois is built on this
pattern
Parramatta Parramatta Gaol,
Sydney, New South Wales, tion PAAM Prisoners Aid Associa-
Papenburg Nazi concentra-
tion camp west of Bremen,
Australia
Parris Island (see USMC) tion of Maryland (Baltimore)
Germany
Pasca Pascagoula, Mississippi, Pachuca prison in Pachuca,
Papua New Guinea a jail is in
jail Pachuco Pa ch u c o l a n d i a
Mexico
Port Moresby, the capital sea-
Paterson northern New Jersey (Mexican-American—El
port city
mill town (often called Silk Paso, Texas)—nicknarne of
Paraguay the capital city,
City) or generic name of its the jail, lockups, and deten-
Asunción, has a big prison
jail and its lockups tion pens of the Immigration
Paramáribo (see Suriname)
Patras (see Grecian prisons) and Naturalization Service
Paranam (see Suriname)
Patton California State Hospi- Pacific Missouri community
Parchman site of the Missis-
tal (for the criminally insane) containing the Missouri East-
sippi State Penitentiary
at Patton ern Correctional Center
Pardelup Pa r d e l u p P r i s o n
Patuxent Patuxent Institution paddy wagon police van for
Farm in Western Australia
for the Criminally Insane transporting prisoners
pardon executive-applied ex-
(Patuxent, Maryland); Patux- Pakistan prison facilities in Is-
emption from punishment for
ent Institution for Defective lamabad, its capital, were built
a crime or for a pending crim-
Delinquents (Jessup, Mary- during British rule; the same
inal conviction
land) is true in cities such as Kara-
Parkhurst top-security prison
Patuxent Institution M a r y - chi, Lahore, and Hyderabad
near Newport on the Isle of
land penal facility and pre-re- p-a-l prisoner-at-large
Wight off England’s south
coast
lease center in Patuxent
Corrections Facilities
Pavón El Pavón (Spanish—the
creed by law, the conse- peacock)—largest prison in
penitenciaría (Spanish—peni-
quences of crime, the means Guatemala
tentiary)—prison
of changing lawbreakers into Pawiak Warsaw, Poland’s
penitenciaría estadual (Por-
law-abiding citizens, and re- prison
tuguese—state peniten-
pairing the damage done to P’burg Pittsburgh, Pennsylva-
tiary)—each of the 22 states
victims of crime nia’s jail
of Brazil maintains such a pe-
nal institution
pensioner(s) of the crown
PCI Program of Correctional
Australian euphemism for Institutions (Puerto Rico)
Penitenciaría General de Ven-
any former convict(s) pcu (PCU) protective custody
ezuela Venezuela’s general
Pensy Pensacola, Florida’s unit
penitentiary situated in San
nickname or that of its jail PDA Polizeiliches Durch-
Juan de los Morros Ejido
Pent The Pent (nickname for gangslager Amersfoort (Ger-
Guárico
Pentonville Prison in the out- man—Police Concentration
Penitenciario de Santiago S a n -
skirts of London’s Islington Camp—Arnersfoort, Nether-
tiago, Chile’s penitentiary
Parish) lands)—staging area for the
Penitenciario Litoral Guayquil,
Pentonville HM Prison at Pen- transport of Dutch prisoners
Ecuador’s maximum-security
tonville, a district of London to Nazi Concentration camps
prison
Pentridge Melbourne, Victo- P del E Penitenciaria del Es-
penitentiaries federal or state
ria’s prison tado (Spanish—State Peni-
maximum-security institu-
Peoria county seat, court- tentiary)
tions
house, and jail of Peoria peace and quiet m a x i m u m -
penitentiary house of correc-
County, Illitiois security cell
tion or rehabilitation center
Perm Soviet labor camp region Pedro San Pedro, California’s
where offenders are confined
700 miles (1127 kilometers) jail
for detention, discipline, re-
east of Moscow Peewee Valley Kentucky town
formation, rehabilitation, or
Persian prisons (see Iranian associated with the Kentucky
punishment; in the United
prisons) Correctional Institution for
States a penitentiary is a max-
Perth Scottish prison close to Women
imum-security penal facility
Perth on the River Tay Pelican Bay state prison near
designed to hold prisoners
Peru its penal facilities are typ- Crescent City, California
serving long sentences
ical of many others in His- Pembroke Pines ( s e e B r o -
Penitentiary of New Mexico
panic countries (see Cárcel ward)
in Santa Fé
Modelo, Lurigancho, Sepa, pen. penitentiary
Penninghame Penninghame
Prison in southwest Scotland
Sexto) Peruvian prisons (see Cárcel
penal isolation solitary con-
Pennsylvania jails the state’s
finement
67 counties have lockups; cit-
Modelo, Lurigancho, Sepa,
Sexto) penalist(s) penologist(s)
ies such as Philadelphia and
Pete St Petersburg, Florida’s penal servitude imprisonment
Pittsburgh have extra facili-
nickname or that of its jail combined with hard labor
ties
Peterhead prison near Aber- penalty punishment for a par-
Pennsylvania State Correc-
deen, Scotland ticular offense
tional Institutions ( s e e
Peter-Paul Peter-Paul Fortress Pence Springs West Virginia
Bellefonte, Camp Hill, Dal-
in St Petersburg; now a mu- site of the West Virginia State
las, Graterford, Huntingdon,
seum Prison for Women
Muncy, Pittsburgh)
Petersburg Federal Correc- Pendleton town that contains
Pennsylvania State Correc-
tional Institution at Peters- the Indiana State Reforma-
tional Institutions and Cor-
burg, Virginia tory
rectional Diagnostic and
Petros Tennessee location of Penetang Penetanguishene
Classification Centers:
Brushy Mountain Peniten- Provincial Establishment for
(see Camp Hill, Graterford,
tiary the Criminally Insane on
and Pittsburgh entries)
Pewee Kentucky Correctional Georgian Bay, Lake Huron,
Pennsylvania System ( s e e
Institution for Women at north northwest of Toronto
solitary system)
Pewee Valley peni penitenciaríla (Span-
penol penological; penologist;
Pforzheim German city and ish—penitentiary)
penology
prison near the Black Forest peniatrist(s) prison doctor(s);
penologist social scientist con-
Philadelphia Prisons D e t e n - prison psychiatrist(s)
cerned with penal institutions
tion Center at 8201 State peniatry branch of medical
and the deterrent effect of
Road, Holmesburg Prison on science dealing with penal es-
punishment decreed by law
Torresdale Avenue in the tablishments and their prison-
penology scientific study of
8200 block; House of Correc- ers
penal institutions, the deter-
rent effect of punishments de-
tion at 8001 State Road
Corrections Facilities
Philippines has some penal in-
pokey jail stitutions dating back to
Pine Hills Pine Hills School
political(s) p o l i t i c a l p r i s - Spain’s colonialization and
for delinquents from 10 to 21
oner(s) more modern ones reflecting
years of age in Miles City,
politico political prisoner; pol- the American period
Montana
itician Phillipsburg capital complete
Pine Street Baltimore, Mary-
Polk Polk Correctional Institu- with lockup in the West In-
land jail on Pine Street
tion at Polk City, Florida dian Leeward Island of Sint
Piraeus (see Grecian prisons)
Pollington HM Borstal at Poll- Maarten (the French have
Pithiviers concentration and
transit camp in France (see
their own part of the island,
ington in Humberside, York- Saint Martin, with a capital
shire, England also complete with lockup
Camp de Drancy)
Pitts nickname for Pittsburgh,
Polmont Scottish borstal
POME Prisoner of Mother En- Philly Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
Pennsylvania or its penal fa-
and called Marigot)
gland (also called a Pommy vania or the name given to
cilities
when in early colonial days any of its many penal institu-
Pittsburgh Correctional Insti-
convicts were shipped to Aus- tions
tution in Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
tralia) Phnom Penh (see Cambodia)
vania, built in 1826 as the
Western Penitentiary; en-
Ponar site of a Nazi concentra- Phoenix Arizona site of Adobe
larged in 1982
tion camp in what is now Mountain School for juvenile
PK Principal Keeper
Lithuania delinquents, the Alhambra
Plainfield site of the Indiana
Ponce city on Puerto Rico’s Reception and Treatment
Boys School, the Indiana
south coast has an old jail as Center for incoming male fel-
Youth Center, and the Recep-
well as police-station lockups ons, the Arizona Center for
tion and Diagnostic Center
Ponte dei Sospiri ( I t a l i a n — Women, the Arizona Training
Plankinton site of the South
Bridge of Sighs)—heavily Facility, the Arizona Correc-
Dakota Training School for
barred, stone-covered, two- tional Training Facility
delinquents up to their seven-
teenth year
storied bridge arching a Vene-
Phoenix Correctional Facility
tian canal, the Rio di Palazzo, At Plymouth, Michigan
Plaszow Nazi concentration
and connecting the Doge’s PHP Preventive Health Pro-
camp northwest of Cracow,
Palace with the state prisons grams
Poland
and dungeons PHS Prison Health Services
Pleasanton Federal Correc-
tional Facility at Pleasanton,
Pontiac Correctional Center
(providing a complete system
northeast of Normal, Illinois of health services to prisons)
California
poogie jail picking oakum picking apart
Pleasantville federal mini-
mum-security facility at Max-
Poolsmoor prison near Cape
pieces of tarred rope for use Town, South Africa
well Air Force Base in Ala-
in caulking wooden ships (a Poona Indian prison in Poona
bama
Plummer Center Delaware’s
century ago this was still the
work-release center in Wilm-
poorhouses of the twentieth
century Ronald Goldfarb’s confined to jails along the
task given many prisoners
apt description of jails coast of Britain as well as the
ington
population movement entries United States)
Plymouth Michigan site of the
Phoenix Correctional Facility PMS Prison Management Sys-
and exits of adjudicated per-
Piedmont Work Release Cen-
sons, or persons subject to ju- ter in Spartanburg, South
dicial proceedings, into or out Carolina
tems (health-care plan offered
of correctional facilities Piedras Negras P i e d r a s
in the United States); Prison
Medical Services (under the
Pork Dump epithet applied to Negras, Coahuila and its jail
Home Office in the United
the Clinton Prison near Utica, Pikeville Tennessee-site of the
Kingdom)
New York Bledsoe County Regional
POA Prison Officers Associ-
porridge British slang for jail Correctional Facility and the
ation
Portage La Prairie C o r r e c - Taft Youth Center
POC Prison officers Club
tional Center for Women at Pinal Pinal County Jail at Flo-
Pocaloo Pocatello, Idaho’s
Portage La Prairie, Manitoba rence, Arizona
nickname or that of its jail
Port Arthur Australia’s prin- Pinchgut prisoner’s nickname
poetic punishment matching
cipal penal colony from 1834 for Fort Denison Prison in
the punishment to fit the
to 1853 in Tasmania, then Sydney Harbour, New South
crime
known as Van Diemen’s Wales
Point Lookout Union prison
Land; today a museum and Pine Bluff Pine Bluff, Arkan-
and stockade close to the Po-
visitor’s center replace the sas with its Diagnostic Unit,
tomac where many Confeder-
convict’s quarters the Pine Bluff Youth Service
ate prisoners died
Port Augusta Port Augusta Center, and the Women’s Unit
Point Salines prison camp at
Point Salines, Grenada
Gaol (South Australia)
Corrections Facilities
Port-au-Prince capital of Haiti
Princetown Her (His) Maj- whose prisons are the most noi-
Powell Ohio location of the
esty’s Prison in Princetown in some in the West Indies
Riverview School for Boys
Devon, England Port Blair headquarters of a
and the Scioto Village, for-
Prince William Prince Will- penal settlement dating from
merly the Girls Industrial
iam—Manassas Regional the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857
School
Adult Detention Center in but discontinued in 1945
Poznan (see Poland)
Virginia Porte d’Enfer (French—Gate
Pozsony Czech name for Brat-
prisão ( P o r t u g u e s e — of Hell)—convict’s nickname
islava and site of an old prison
prison)—also called cárcere for the prison gate at Saint
built long before World War I
prison confinement facility Laurent du Maroni in French
Pozzi old Italian prison in Ven-
with custodial authority over Guiana
ice
adults sentenced to confine- Port Elizabeth (see South Af-
PPCAA Parole and Probation
ment for more than one year rica)
Compact Administrators As-
sociation
Prison at the Bottom of the
Port Isabel Port Isabel Deten-
World Ushuaia, Argentina tion Center of the Immigra-
PPS Pennsylvania Prison Soci-
ety (Philadelphia-based)
Prison at the Top of the
tion and Naturalization Ser-
World Solovetski Island in vice in Port Isabel, Texas
pq punishment quarters (iso-
the former Soviet Union Portland HM Borstal at Port-
lated section of many peniten-
prison bird recidivist; pris- land in Dorset, England; other
tiaries and reformatories)
oner who has been to prison detention places in towns
p & q peace and quiet (soli-
before named Portland from Austra-
tary confinement)
prison break e s c a p e f r o m lia to the West Indies, includ-
Praia (see Cape Verde)
prison accompanied by force ing Portland Maine and Port-
Presidential Candidate and
and violence land, Oregon
Prison Convict Eugene V.
prison bug person spending Port Laoise prison southwest
Debs, Socialist candidate im-
most of their time in prison of Dublin, Ireland
prisoned for making an anti-
prison camp minimum-secu- Port Lincoln P o r t L i n c o l n
war speech in 1918
rity camp designed to shelter Prison (south Australia)
presidio (Spanish—military
convicts assigned to farm or Port Louis (see Mauritius)
prison)—may also mean cita-
forestry projects, road repair Port Macquarie A u s t r a l i a n
del, penitentiary, or prison;
work, or other federal or state convict colony in New South
many were built in the Amer-
projects Wales in the early 1800s
ican Southwest during Span-
Prison Camps the U.S. Bu- Port Moresby ( s e e Pa p u a
ish and Mexican rule
reau of Prisons maintains New Guinea)
Presidio Prisoner’s publica-
camps at Allenwood, Penn- Porto also called Oporto (see
tion issued bimonthly at the
sylvania; Eglin Air Force Portugal)
Iowa State Penitentiary in
Fort Madison
Base, Florida; Montgomery,
Port-of-Spain (see Trinidad Alabama; and Safford, Ari-
presidio modelo ( S p a n i s h —
and Tobago) zona
model penitentiary or prison)
Portsmouth site of the Royal prison coffin plain wooden
Pressburg German name for
Navy’s prison; New Hamp- box fitted with rope handles
Pozsony, site of an old prison
shire port and site of the U.S. and perforated with holes fa-
in Czechoslovakia
Naval Prison cilitating disintegration once
Pretoria (see South Africa)
Port Sudan (see Sudan) security Pretoria Central buried prisoner person in custody in Portugal Lisbon, the capital,
Pretoria Central maximum-
Prison in Pretoria, South Af-
very old prisons personal custody while being
and Porto (Oporto) have some
a confinement facility or in
rica
transported to or between Post Care Program for adult
Pre-Trial Annex Wilmington,
confinement facilities felons in Lincoln, Omaha,
Delaware’s facility for those
prisoner at large naval pris- and Norfolk, Nebraska
held in detention status
oner confined to the barracks Poston former Indian reserva-
Preungeshim security prison
or the ship tion in Arizona; used as a de-
in Frankfurt, Germany
prigione (Italian—prison)—
prisoner-of-war camps in the
Confederacy A n d e r s o n - Americans
tention camp for Japanese
also called carcere
ville, Georgia; others in Geor- Potma reputed to have been
Prigione d’Genova (see Ital-
gia included Camp Davidson the Soviet Union’s largest
ian prisons)
at Savannah, Camp Ogletho- forced-labor penal colony
Prince Albert Canadian city
rpe at Macon, and one at Poughkeepsie seat of Duchess
containing the Saskatchewan
Millen; camps in South Caro- County and its jail
Penitentiary
lina were at Charleston, Co- pow (POW) prisoner of war
Prince George British Colum-
bia penitentiary
lumbia, and Florence; in
Corrections Facilities
North Carolina at Salisbury;
adults and juveniles to pre-
Puerto Rican Prison camps
in Virginia at Danville and at
six of them were active in the Libby Prison in Richmond
pare predisposition and pre-
mid-1980s prisoners of the Crown o l d
sentencing reports to assist
Puerto Rico lockups 76 mu- Australian euphemism mean-
courts in determining sen-
nicipios (municipalities) ing convicts
tences
make up Puerto Rico; some Prisoner’s Union p u b l i s h e s
probation officer employee of
have jail facilities dating back Outlaw bimonthly; seeks an
a probation agency or proba-
to Spain’s occupation of the end to economic exploitation
tion department
island of prisoners and redress for
probation sentence court re-
Puerto Vasco pseudonym for convict’s grievances
quirement that a person ful-
a clandestine prison in Argen- prison fever typhus (usually
fill certain conditions of be-
tina due to overcrowding)
h av i o r a n d a c c e p t t h e
’Pulco Acapulco, México, jail prison house prison
supervision of a probation
Pul-i-charki prison in Kabul, prison hulk prison ship
agency or department probation violation p r o b a -
Afghanistan prison labor work carried out
tioner’s nonconformance to
by convicts such as producing
Punta Arenas Chilean prison furniture, road building and
in the Straits of Magellan repairing; stamping out auto-
the conditions of probation
PROOF Parole Resource Of-
Puntarenas Pacific coast port mobile license plates, etc.
and prison of Costa Rica prisonment imprisonment
fice and Orientation Facility
(Jersey City, New Jersey)
Punxey Punxsutawney, Penn- prison officer British euphe-
PROP Preservation of the
sylvania’s jail and lockup mism for gaoler
Rights of Prisoners
Providence Rhode Island’s
Purdy Treatment Center for
prison pallor bloodless-yel-
Women in Gig Harbor, low paleness of many prison-
capital city and county jail;
Washington ers deprived of fresh air, sun-
other correctional facilities
put away imprison; remove shine, and vitamins
are scattered throughout this
from society prison psychosis mental dis-
state
put in the hole place in a sol- turbance actuated by impris-
Providence County Jail o l d
itary-confinement cell onment and manifested by de-
name for what is now known
Puyallup assembly center for lusions, paranoid trends, and
as the Awaiting Trial Facility
Japanese-Americans brought pseudo-hallucinations
in Cranston, Rhode Island
in from other parts of Wash- Prisons U.S. Bureau of Prison
Provo seat of Utah County jail
ington prison sentence commitment
PSAMPP Philadelphia Soci-
PVA Prison Visitor’s Associa- to the jurisdiction of a con-
ety for Alleviating the Miser-
tion finement facility
ies of Public Prisons (founded
PWA Prison Wardens Associa- prison simple mentally de-
by Benjamin Franklin, Will-
tion ranged by imprisonment
iam Rush, and others)
pw(’s) prisoner(s) of war prison smell u s u a l l y c o m -
PSTD Prison Service Training
Pyongyang capital of North pounded of excreta, grease,
Depot (Pretoria, South Af-
Korea containing a prison stale tobacco, sweat, unaired
rica) psychiatric prison Her Maj-
built between 1910 and 1945 prison van black maria or
bedding, and vomit
Q San Quentin Prison in Cali- paddy wagon used to trans-
esty’s Prison Grendon Under-
fornia port prisoners
wood in the South Midlands
Qatar the capital, Doha, is on prison within a prison s o l i -
of England
psychoprison psychiatric hos-
the Persian Gulf and its old tary confinement cell
prison is primitive Prison World original name
pital prison (USSR’s place for
dissidents)
QC Quezon City, capital of the of the American Journal of
PU Prisoner’s Union
Philippines, or its detention Correction
Pudu prison in Kuala Lumpur,
facilities prob probation(ary); probation
Malaysia
QCPSA (see Quaker Center officer
Puebla prison in Puebla, Méx-
for Prisoner Support Activi- probation conditional suspen-
ico
ties) sion of imprisonment of a
Puerto Barrios prison in Gua-
QCSR Quaker Committee on convicted offender who must
temala’s Caribbean seaport
Social Rehabilitation (in New stay in the community under
Puerto Cabello Ve n e z u e l a n
York City) the supervision of a probation
seaport where there is a jail
Qsar Teheran, Iran’s great officer
Puerto Cabezas Nicaraguan
prison probation agency c o r r e c -
prison and seaport on the
quad prison; prison quadran- tional agency supervising
Mosquito Coast
gle; prison yard adults and juveniles placed on
Puerto Rican District jails in
quail roost women’s dormi- probation and investigating
Aguadilla, Arecibo, Hu-
macao, and in Ponce
tory in a house of detention
Corrections Facilities
Quaker Center for Prisoner
Reception and Diagnostic Support Activities
Raleigh North Carolina site of
Center maximum-security (QCPSA) conducts nonvio-
the Central Prison, Correc-
facility of Indiana’s Depart- lent training workshops for
tional Center for Women, and
ment of Correction in Plain- prisoners
the Triangle Correctional
field Quantico (see USMC)
Center
Ramla Israeli maximum-secu-
Reception and Diagnostic
quarry cure forcing addicts to
Center for Children B o n work in stone quarries far
rity prison
Air, Virginia’s facility for de- from sources of alcohol and
Ranby Camp H M P r i s o n
linquents from 8 to 18 years narcotics
Camp at Ranby in Notting-
of age quarter stretch three-month’s
hamshire, England
ranch synonym for a correc-
Reception and Guidance Cen-
ter—Jackson in Jackson, Queen of Heaven (see Italian
sentence
tional facility such as a prison
Michigan to help juvenile de- prisons)
camp or farm in a rural area
linquents Queensboro Queensboro Cor-
Rancho del Campo juvenile
correctional facility for older
Reception and Guidance Cen-
rectional Facility in Long Is-
ter—Riverside i n I o n i a , land City, New York
boys in San Diego County
Michigan, holds male felons queen’s bus prison van
near Campo, California
under 21 years of age queer bird jailbird
Rancho del Rayo m i n i -
mum-security correctional fa-
Reception and Medical Cen-
queer-ken prison
ter in Lake Butler, Florida Quent San Quentin (California
cility for younger boys in San
complete with a hospital and State Prison)
Diego County, California
surgery Querétero prison in Queré-
RAP Release Aid Program
Reception Center Maryland tero, Mexico
penal facility in Baltimore Questore Italy’s security ser-
RAPP Radical Alternatives to
next to the Maryland Peniten- vice and the National Central
Prison Plan
tiary Bureau of Interpol in Rome
rasoir nationale ( F r e n c h —
reception centers World War II euphemism for camps set up zon (see Philippines)
national razor)—the guillo-
Quezon City also called Que-
tine
to hold some 110,000 Amer- Quilmas San Quilmas (Mexi- can-American—San Antonio,
rasphuys ( F l e m i s h — r a s p
house)—Ghent’s workhouse-
type prison—the French call
icans of Japanese descent un- til they could be relocated
away from the West Coast lockups, and the detention
Texas)—nickname of its jail,
this maison de force (work- house)
recidivist habitual prisoner; pens of the Immigration and
person spending much of Naturalization Service
Rathmore Road n i c k n a m e
their life in prison quod prison
derived from the address of
recid(s) recidivist(s) R rogue (brand burned on the
Cork Prison, Ireland
reclusão (Portuguese—reclu- left shoulder of convicts
rat row prison cells for infor-
sion)—solitary confinement transported to various British
mants
reclusion (French—solitary colonies from 1619 until
Ravensbrück Nazi concentra-
confinement) 1868)
tion camp north of Berlin
Rawlins location of the Wyo-
Réclusion de Saint-Joseph
Rabat (see Morocco)
solitary-confinement prison rabbit feet escaped prisoners
ming State Penitentiary
on Saint-Joseph Isle off rabbit fever desire to break
Ray Brook Federal Correc-
French Guiana, close to parole or leave an honor camp
tional Institution at Ray
Devil’s Island before completion of sen-
Brook, New York
réclusionnaire ( F r e n c h — tence
Raymond Mississippi com-
prisoner in solitary confine- rabbit foot escaped prisoner
munity containing the Oakley
ment) rack maximum-security cell
Campus run by the Depart-
ment of Youth Services
Reclusorio Norte (Spanish—
Radical Alternatives to Prison
Northern Place of Retire- Plan (RAPP) British pro-
Raymond Street R a y m o n d
ment)—official name of Mex- gram
Street Jail in Brooklyn, New
ico City’s penitentiary Rahway site of New Jersey
York
reconcentrados ( S p a n i s h — State Prison
razor ribbon r a z o r- e d g e d
concentration camps)—es- Raiford Florida site of the
stainless-steel security fenc-
tablished by the Spanish in Union Correctional Institu-
ing
Cuba in 1896 but abolished tion, once called the Florida
Reading HM Prison at Read-
by 1898 after many protests State Prison or the Raiford
ing in Berkshire, England;
made in England, Spain and State Prison
American jails in other Read-
the United States railroad sending a person to
ings in Kansas, Massachu-
record purge c o m p l e t e r e - jail or prison without benefit
setts, Michigan, Minnesota,
moval of arrest, criminal, or of trial or proof of guilt
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Ver-
mont
juvenile records
Corrections Facilities
Redding Shasta County court-
Rhode Island State Prison in house and jail in California
remand to send a prisoner
Cranston, now known as the Redención ( S p a n i s h — R e -
back to court for a further
Maximum Security Facility demption)—Spain’s official
hearing; a remand prison con-
tains people awaiting return
Rhode Island Training School
prison publication printed in
for Girls at Howard, Rhode prison workshops and sub-
to court
Island scribed to by prisoners
Remand Remand Prison at Jin
Rhodesia (see Zimbabwe) throughout the country and in
Penjara 3, Singapore
Richmond site of the Virginia Africa
remand center British term
State Penitendary or the local Red Wing site of the Minne-
for a borstal or juvenile jail
jail and police-station lock- sota Correctional Facility at
where convicts undergo a pe-
ups; Richmond Penitentiary Red Wing
riod of rehabilitation before,
in St Croix, American Virgin Redwood City San Mateo Coun-
being paroled or released
remand home synonym for a
Islands West Indies; Texas
ty jail in California town holding the Jester prer-
remand center
remand institution jail, peni-
Reeducation of Attitudes and
elease unit
Repressed Emotions treat- Richmond Farm J a m a i c a n
tentiary, or prison
ment program for sex offend- prison close to Annotto Bay
Rembert South Carolina site
ers on the north coast
of the Wateree River Correc-
ref reformatory Richmond Hill prison on the
tional Institution
island of Grenada reflection cell maximum-secu-
Reno El Reno, Oklahoma’s
Richmond Village Tasmanian rity cell
federal detention reforma-
town noted for its convict- reformatory house of correc-
tory; Reno, Nevada or its jail
built bridge and old gaol tion charged with making
rent-a-con plan hiring ex-con-
Ridgeville South Carolina site convicts alter their lifestyle
victs so they get a fresh start in society
of the MacDougall Youth and return to society as lawa-
Correction Center biding citizens
Renz Correctional Center i n
Riga main concentration camp Regina Coeli (Latin—Queen
Cedar City, Missouri reprieve executive order sus-
in Riga, Latvia during World of Heaven)—Rome, Italy’s
pending execution of a sen-
Riker’s complex of prisons on
Regina Provincial Correction-
resilient cell padded cell pre-
venting prisoners from injur-
Riker’s Island in New York
al Centre in Saskatchewan
ing or killing themselves
City’s East River; complex in-
Regional Correctional Facili-
cludes the Adolescent Re- ties (see Greensburg, Mer-
Rest and Reverie n i c k n a m e
mand Shelter, the Riker’s Is- cer)
land Penitentiary, and the rehab rehabilitate; rehabilita-
of Terminal Island, Califor-
Riker’s Island Women’s De- tion
nia’s prison in Los Angeles
tention Center rehabilitation changing the
Harbor
Ringe Danish state prison at offender’s character, intent,
restitution center small house
where convicted criminals
must spend every night after
Ringe, often nicknamed the
Sex Prison, as inmates of both law-abiding conduct
a n d m o t iva t i o n t owa r d
going out every day to work
sexes are allowed sexual free- rehabilitation laboratory eu-
off their debts to the victims
dom; on the island of Funen phemism for any modern
of their crimes
south of Odense prison
restraints ankle cuffs, belly
Ring-Ring Copenhagen, Den- Reidsville site of the Georgia
chains, belt restraints, hand-
cuffs, leg irons, straitjack-
mark’s penitentiary Rio Rio de Janeiro or its jail
State Prison
ets, etc.
Re-Integration Center in Al-
Retrieve Unit in Angleton,
Rio Consumnes Correctional Facility in Elk Grove, Califor-
buquerque, New Mexico
Texas Réunion French island in the
nia Reiserstown Montrose School
Rio de Oro former Spanish for Girls in Reiserstown,
Indian Ocean used for the iso- lation of political prisoners
prison colony in northwest Maryland
Africa Release Aid Program ( s e e
Reykjavik (see Iceland)
Riom location in France of an RAP)
Reynosa Reynosa, Tamaulipas
old and infamous prison rélegué (French—isolated; rel-
and its jail
Rio Muni Spanish Guinea on egated)—convict condemned
RGC Reception Guidance
the West African mainland to banishment in a penal colony
Center
and the nearby island of relocation center camp where
Rhode Island jails five coun-
Fernando used as a convict Japanese-Americans were
ties have lockups; Providence
settlement confined shortly after the at-
has extra facilities
Rio Piedras location of Puerto tack on Pearl Harbor
Rhode Island penal facilities
all 11 are in Cranston
Rico’s State Penitentiary
Corrections Facilities
RIP Riker’s Island Peniten-
Rottnest R o t t n e s t I s l a n d , tiary
Rock Mountain R i c h a r d J
former penal colony in the In- Risdon Hobart, Tasmania’s
Donovan Correctional Facil-
dian Ocean prison and prison hospital
ity at Rock Mountain, Cali-
Round House F r e m a n t l e , River Avenue Bronx House of
fornia
Western Australia’s oldest Detention in New York City
Rock Spring Georgia site of
structure built in 1830 as a jail River House Ohio State Peni-
the Walker Correctional Insti-
Rove Solomon Islands’ prison tentiary on the Scioto River
tution
Rockville Training Center
in Honiara
River Junction Correctional In-
RTU Rahway Treatment Unit stitution in Chattahoochee,
Indiana correction facility in
for sex offenders imprisoned Florida
Rockville
in New Jersey’s State Prison Riverside Riverside County
Rockwell City Women’s Re-
at Rahway courthouse and jail east of
formatory at Rockwell City,
rubber room padded cell for Los Angeles, California
Iowa
Rocky Butte Portland, Ore-
self-destructive or violent
Riverside Correctional Facil-
prisoners ity in Ionia, Michigan
gon’s jail
Riverton site of the Wyoming Rutland Correctional Facility,
Roebuck Roebuck Campus
in Rutland, Vermont Honor Farm
Birmingham, Alabama (aca-
Riverview Canadian Interpro- Rutland Street nickname of
demic-oriented rehabilitation
vincial Home for Women Limerick’s prison on Rutland
program for juvenile delin-
(misdemeanants) in River- Street in Ireland
quents)
side, New Brunswick; Florida Rwanda the capital, Kigali,
Rohwer Arkansas relocation
site of the Hillsborough Cor- contains an old prison built by
center for interned Japa-
rectional Institution the Belgians
nese-Americans
Riverview Release Center i n S-21 Khmer Rouge name for Newton, Iowa
Romania Bucharest and Con-
Tuol Sleng near Phnom Penh, Riverview School for Boys in
stanza have prisons built
when the Balkan nation was
Cambodia where nearly
Powell, Ohio 20,000 prisoners were exe-
a kingdom
Riyadh (see Saudi Arabia) cuted by the Khmer Rouge
Romanian concentration
SA Salvation Army charged Prisoner’s Aid Soci-
camps during World War II
RLDPAS Royal London Dis-
SAA Singapore Aftercare As- ety
the most notorious were Ak-
sociation (hostel for ex-con- RLPAS Royal London Prison-
mecetka, Bogdnovka, and
victs) ers’ Aid Society
Dumanovka
roomie cellmate
Roosevelt Roosevelt Island in
Sabanete nickname of Mara-
Roaston, Toaston, and Dus-
caibo, Venezuela’s national ton nicknames given by the Japanese-Americans interned
New York City’s East River,
formerly called Welfare Is-
prison (Cáircel Nacional de Maracaibo)
at prison camps in the roast-
land and Blackwell’s Island;
site of lunatic asylum, prison,
Sachsenhausen main Nazi
concentration camp near Berlin of Arizona
ing, toasting, and dusty desert
and workhouse
Sacramento S a c r a m e n t o Robben Island South African
Roosevelt Roads P u e r t o
County courthouse and jail in oners
penitentiary for political pris-
Rico’s location of the U.S.
Naval Station and its brig
California SACRO Scottish Association
Rochester detention facilities
rope hangman’s rope; mari-
for the Care and Resettlement in Rochester, Minnesota and
juana; vein Rosario (see Argentina)
of Offenders Rochester, New York; HM
Sacto Sacramento, California Borstal at Rochester on the
Roseau (see Dominica)
or its jail gland’s Kent
safe house military jail; reha- Rock the Rock (nickname for
Medway River estuary in En-
Rosharon Texas site of the
Darrington Unit
bilitation center for prosti- the 12-acre rock occupied by
Rostov-on-Don Soviet state
tutes Alcatraz when it served as a
police prison, also called
safekeeper felon preserved prison in San Francisco Bay);
House 33
from escaping by being put in nickname for the Riker’s Is-
Rota small Spanish port in
custody land penal facilities in New
Cadiz Bay and location of a
safety cell padded cell for self- York’s East River
brig maintained by the U.S.
destructive or violent prison- rock crusher p r i s o n e r a s -
Navy
ers signed to hard manual labor
rotan (Malay—rattan)—lash-
safety vest straitjacket Rockland R o c k l a n d S t a t e
ing stick in Malaysia and Sin-
Safford Federal Prison Camp Hospital for the Criminally
gapore where corporal pun-
at Safford, Arizona Insane in New York’s Rock-
ishment is still used in jails
Sagmalcilar Istanbul, Tur- land County
and street riots
Rotterdam (see Netherlands)
key’s great prison
Corrections Facilities
Sagmalcilar Hilton inmates’
Samoa Apia, its capital, has a nickname for the principal
Saint Lucy n i c k n a m e f o r
lockup prison of Istanbul
Saint Lucia or its jail or po-
Sanaa (see Yemen) Said Port Said, Egypt, and its
lice-station lockup
San Anto (Mexican-Ameri- jail as well as police lockups
Saint Marguerite old prison
can—San Antonio, Texas)— Saigon (see Vietnam)
close to the coast of Cannes
jail nickname Saint Anthony home of the
Saint Martin seaport capital,
San Antone nickname for San Youth Services Center of
Marigot, has its own lockup
Antonio, Texas or its jail and Idaho
Saint Mary’s Saint Mary’s
its police-station lockups Saint Barts Saint Barthelemy
Honor Center in Saint Louis,
San Berdoo San Bernardino, in the French West Indies or
Missouri
California or its jail its jail
Saint P Saint Paul, Minnesota
San Bernardino San Bernar- Saint Bridget’s Well original
or its jail
dino County courthouse and name of London’s Bridewell
Saint Paul (see Saint Joseph
jail east of Los Angeles, Cal- prison, once a royal palace of
and Saint Paul)
ifornia (also called San Ber- King Edward VI
Saint Pete Saint Petersburg,
doo) Saint Catherine’s J a m a i c a n
Florida or its jail
San Bruno S a n F r a n c i s c o district prison near Kingston
County Jail at San Bruno, Saint Cloud Minnesota Cor-
Saint Petersburg (see Tampa)
California Cloud; 26 rue Armengaud,
Saint Pierre former French
rectional Facility at Saint
penal colony on Saint Pierre
sand prisoner’s nickname for
sugar Saint Cloud, Paris (headquar- ters of the general secretariat
Island in the Gulf of Saint
San Diego San Diego County of Interpol—the International
Lawrence
Saint Vincent and the Grena-
dines the capital, King-
courthouse and jail in San Di- ego, California (also called
Dago or Diego) Sands Sands Prison outside correctional facility for women
Criminal Police organization)
stown, has an old HM Gaol
Saint Cyrille Maison Gomin
Salaspils Nazi concentration
Beirut, Lebanon at Saint Cyrille, Québec
camp near Riga, Latvia
Sandstone Federal Correc- Saint Gabriel Louisiana Cor-
Salem capital of Oregon con-
tional Institution at Sand- rectional Institute for Women
tains the Correction Division
stone, Minnesota San Francisco San Francisco Correctional Center is also in
Release Center, the Hillcrest
at Saint Gabriel; the Hunt
School of Oregon, the Oregon
County courthouse and jail in Saint Gabriel Saint George’s (see Grenada
State Correctional Institution, the Oregon State Penitentiary,
and the Oregon Women’s
San Francisco, California, also known as Frisco
San Francisco ( I t a l i a n — Saint Jean prison camp on the Maroni River of French Gui-
gaol)
Correctional Center; West Virginia Home for Girls at Sa-
lem
Saint Francis)—name of the prison in Parma, Italy
ana, upstream from the penal
San Jack San Jacinto, Texas or colony headquarters at Saint
Salinas Monterey County jail
its jail Laurent
south of San Jose, California
San Jo San José, California Saint Joe Saint Joseph, Mis-
Salisbury Salisbury (North
and its jail souri, its jail or lockups
Carolina) National Cemetery
San Jose Santa Clara County Saint John jail and lockups at
containing graves of Union
courthouse and jail southeast Saint John, New Brunswick
soldiers who died in the Con-
federate prison here during
of San Francisco, California
Saint Joseph and Saint Paul
San José capital of Costa Rica adjacent maximum-security
the Civil War; (see Zimba-
and site of its main prison prisons in Lyons, France
bwe)
sally port first gate to a prison
San Juan capital of Puerto
Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni
Rico, includes Bayamón, French Guiana port on the
Salpetriere Paris hospital for
Carolina, Cataño, Guaynabo, Maroni River; headquarters
the criminally insane
Rio Piedras, and Trujillo Alto, of the penal settlement known
Saltillo prison in Saltillo,
in addition to penal facilities as Devil’s Island
Coahuila, México
dating back to Spanish rule; Saint Lou Saint Louis, Mis-
Salt Lake City Utah location
the general penitentiary of souri or its jail
of the Community Correc-
Venezuela situated in San Saint Louis du Maroni prison
tions Centers—Bonneville,
Juan de los Morros Ejido camp on the Maroni River in
Central, Lakehills, Women’s;
Guarico French Guiana upstream from
and the State Diagnostic Unit
Salt Lake Women’s Commu-
San Juan Detention Center
in San Juan, Puerto Rico Saint Lucia Castries, the capi-
Saint Laurent
nity Corrections Center in
San Juan de Ulúa old Span- tal, has an HM Gaol built dur-
Salt Lake City, Utah
ish fortress on an islet about ing British dominion, 1814 to
Samarkand Manor N o r t h
a mile (1.6 kilometers) off the 1979
Carolina youth service facil-
ity at Eagle Springs
shark-infested port of Ver-
Corrections Facilities
acruz, Mexico; since colonial
Scanray Scanray Corpora- times the fortress has served
Civil War, later was used as a
tion’s X-ray system for seeing as a dungeon for political
prison to for Republican lead-
what is inside parcels brought prisoners
ers
into jails or prisons San Luis Obispo C a l i f o r n i a
Santa Marta C o l o m b i a n
scarce commodity p r i s o n Men’s Colony at San Luis
prison in the seaport of Santa
space Obispo includes a forestry
Marta; federal prison outside
SCCA South Carolina Correc- camp; also the San Luis
Mexico City
tions Association Obispo courthouse and jail
Santa Marta Acatitla prison
Schenectady upper New York San Luis Potosi prison in San
southeast of Mexico City
State site of county jail Luís Potosí, Mexico
Santa Rita Santa Rita Reha-
Schlüsselburg L e n i n g r a d San Luis RC San Luís Río
bilitation Center in Califor-
prison Colorado, Sonora and its jail
nia’s Alameda County
school of crime epithet ap- San Marino has a very small
Santa Rosa Sonoma County
lockup plied to many prisons
seat and jail north of San
sci (SCI) secret confidential San Pedro Lima, Peru’s larg-
Francisco, California
est penitentiary informant
Santé Parisian prison at 42 rue
Scioto Village Ohio penal fa- San Pedro Sula C a r i b b e a n
de la Santé
port of Honduras and its cility for male and female de-
Santiago de Cuba (see Cuba)
prison linquents; opened as the Girls
Santo Domingo capital of the
San Quentin California State Industrial School in 1869
Dominican Republic noted
Prison at San Quentin on a Scotland (see United King-
for the poor quality of its de-
small peninsula in San Fran- dom and individual entries)
tention camps, jails, and pris-
ons
cisco Bay
Scottish Association for the
San Quentin Daily Care and Resettlement of
Santurce Puerto Rican site of
Offenders SACRO award-winning newspaper
the Institution for Youthful
published by inmates at San Scottish prisons A b e r d e e n ,
Offenders
Quentin in California Castle Huntly Borstal Institu-
Sáo Tomé and Principe
San Quilmas San Antonio, tion, Cornton Vale, Dumfries
prison is a veritable antique
Texas or its jail or lockups Young Offenders Institution,
Sapporo (see Japan’s prisons)
San Rafael M a r i n C o u n t y Edinburgh, Edinburgh Young
Sarah Anthony San Diego,
courthouse and jail in Califor- Offenders Institution, Glas-
California’s school for delin-
nia gow, Glasgow Young Offend-
quent boys and girls ages 8 to
Santa Ana the central peniten- ers Institution, Glenochil De-
tention Centre, Greenock, tiary of Occidente’s EJido
Sarajevo (see Yugoslavia)
Inverness, Longriggend Re- Trujillo in Venezuela; Orange
Sasabe Sasabe, Sonora, Mex-
mand Institution, Low Moss, County courthouse and jail
ico and its jail
Noranside Borstal Institution, California
Saskatchewan Saskatchewan
Penninghame, Perth (includ- Santa Anita California race-
southeast of Los Angeles,
Penitentiary in Prince Albert
ing the Friarton Young Of- track that served as an intern-
sat in the hot seat d i e d b y
fenders Institution), Peter- ment camp for Japanese
electrocution
head, Polmont Borstal Americans
Saudi Arabia the capital, Riy-
Institution Santa Barbara P e r u v i a n
adh, and Jidda have prisons
dating back the 18th, 19th,
Scottish Prison Service Col-
lege SPSC port of Callao; Santa Barbara
and early 20th centuries
scragsman British slang for a County courthouse and jail in
prison for women in Lima’s
Saughter prison in Edinburgh,
hangman southern California
Scotland
Scranton Pennsylvania city Santa Clarita maximum-se-
Sauk Centre location of the
and Lackawanna County seat curity jail near Valencia, Cal-
Minnesota Correctional Fa-
and jail ifornia
cility
screening ( s e e d e t e n t i o n Santa Cruz S a n t a C r u z
Saulsbury Tennessee site of a
screening) County courthouse and jail
Civil War prisoner-of-war
screw(s) prison guard(s) north of Monterey, California
camp
Scrubs The Scrubs (Worm- Santa Fé site of the Peniten-
Sav Savannah, Georgia or its
wood Scrubs Prison in West tiary of New Mexico
jail
SBCR State Board of Charities
London’s stadium area)
Santa María de la Cabeza
SDC State Department of Cor- monastery in the Sierra
and Reform (Wyoming)
rections (Alabama, Colorado, Morena northeast of Cordoba,
SBIW Sybil Brand Institute for
Virginia) Spain, defended by Franco’s
Women (correctional facility
SDCJ San Diego County Jail forces during the Spanish
in Los Angeles, California)
scam escape from jail or prison
in California
Corrections Facilities
SDMCC San Diego Metropol-
sheriff chief officer of county itan Correctional Center (Cal-
Seven-Step Foundation half-
law enforcement and the ifornia)
way house for released con-
county jail SD Met San Diego Metropoli-
victs
Shin Bet Israel’s domestic se- tan Correctional Center in
Seville (see Spain)
curity agency downtown San Diego, Cali-
Sex Prison nickname for the
shit on a raft naval and prison fornia
Danish state prison at Ringe
slang for creamed beef or Seagoville Federal Correc-
where the experiments in pe-
creamed chicken on toast tional Institution at
nology are underway in an ef-
shit on a shingle military and Seagoville, Texas
fort to treat felons as humans
prison slang for creamed beef Sea-Tac S e a t t l e - Ta c o m a ,
Sexto Lima, Peru jail
or creamed chicken on toast Washington or its jail
Seychelles the capital, Victoria,
shiv knife made in prison; Seavy’s Island U.S. Naval
has an old HM gaol facility
switchblade knife Prison near Portsmouth, New
Shore Patrol Tank nickname Hampshire
SFCJ San Francisco County
for a lockup maintained by seclusion solitary confinement
Jail
SFDC Santa Fe Detention
the Navy in many American
security housing section of a seaports
Center in New Mexico
prison where hardened and short stretch short prison sen- hard-to-handle prisoners are
Shaker Road Albany County
tence segregated
Penitentiary on Shaker Road
in the Colonie section of Al-
short-term adult penal institu-
bany, New York
Security Islands Îles du Salut
tions of the U.S. Bureau of
Prisons Allenwood, Penn- ana; three rocky islets—Île du
off the coast of French Gui-
Shakopee location of the Min-
sylvania; Elgin Air Force Diable (Devil’s Island), Île
nesota Correctional Facility
Base, Florida; El Paso, Royale, and Île Saint Jo-
for female felons
Texas; Florence, Arizona; seph—surrounded by shark-
shamus Irish-Gaelic nickname
Montgomery, Alabama; Saf- infested waters; until the
for a detective or other law
ford, Arizona 1950s political prisoners were
enforcement officer—[see ca-
Shrewsbury H M P r i s o n a t isolated here
nine shamus(es)]
Shrewsbury in Shropshire, segregation isolation of crimi-
Sharjah (see United Arab
England nals from other members of
Emirates)
shrouding cover feature of society; racial segregation;
Sharpes (see Brevard)
hard-to-pry-open locks, pad- solitary confinement
Shata medium-security Israeli
locks, and shackle locks seis y uno (Spanish—six plus
prison with a work-release
Siam (see Thailand) one)—(see Six plus One)
program managed by kibbutz
Siberia Russian area given Send detention center in Sur-
volunteers
over largely to the exile and rey, England
Sha Tsui Sha Tsui Detention
imprisonment of political Senegal the capital, Dakar, has
Centre on Lantau Island, New
prisoners an old prison built by the
Teritories, Hong Kong
Siberia de las Américas (Span- French
Sheff Sheffield, England or
ish—Siberia of the Ameri- Seoul capital of South Korea
cas)—political prisoner’s contains a prison built during
its jail
nickname for prisons on the the Japanese occupation of
shelter confinement facility
Isle of Pines (Isla de Pinos), Korea
for juveniles held pending ad-
judication
renamed Isla de Juventud
(Isle of Youth)—in the Carib- Sepa m a x i m u m - s e c u r i t y
Shelton Washington State
bean off Cuba prison in the remote jungles
Corrections Center or the
Siberian salt mines nickname of Peru
Women’s Correctional Facil-
for the forced-labor camps Serbia (see Yugoslavia)
ity at Shelton
and prisons throughout Sibe- serve a sentence spend time
Shelton Abbey o l d I r i s h
ria and other places in the in jail or prison
prison near Arklow on the
USSR serve time spend time in jail or
east coast of Ireland
Sierra Leone t h e c a p i t a l , prison
Shepton Mallet HM Prison at
Freetown, has a prison built SETAF Southern European
Shepton Mallet in Somerset,
by the British Task Force (confinement fa-
England
silence bell evening bell rung cility in Italy)
Sheridan federal correctional
to advise prison inmates they Settlement Island former pe-
institution in Oregon; Sheri-
must cease all talking and nal colony within Macquarie
dan Correctional Center in
noisemaking Harbour on the coast of Tas-
Sheridan, Illinois, functions
silent system imprisonment mania
as the Illinois Industrial
characterized by enforced si- Sevastopol Sevastopol central
School for Boys (17 years old
lence and by night confine- prison in Crimea
and up); the Wyoming Girls
School at Sheridan
ment in small solitary cells;
Corrections Facilities
inmates allowed to congre-
slum slumgullion stew (served
Sonderkommando Umsied-
gate with other prisoners dur-
lungslager (German—Spe- ing meals or when at work;
in many jails)
cial Unit Resettlement also called the Auburn Sys-
Smithfield Pennsylvania Cor-
Camp—euphemism for a tem
rections Department near
quick-extermination concen- Silk City Paterson, New Jer-
Carbondale
tration camp such as Sobibor sey, or its jail
smogged executed in a gas
Sonkom Sonderkommando Simons Simonstown, South
chamber
(German—Special Com- Africa, or its jail
Smyrna the Delaware Correc-
mando)—Hitler organization Simsbury e a r l y A m e r i c a n
tional Center
working at concentration prison built within an aban-
Sneads Florida site of the
camp crematoria and gas doned copper mine near Hart-
Apalachee Correctional Insti-
chambers where some in- ford, Connecticut; in use from
tution
mates were forced to assist 1773 to 1827
Snoqualmie Washington town
their armed guards in killing Sin Angeles (Spanish—With-
containing the Echo Glen Chil-
out Angels)—Los Angeles,
dren’s Center for delinquents
weaker prisoners and remov-
ing their remains California or its jail, lockups,
from 8 to 14 years of age
Sonoita Sonoita, Sonora, Mex- penitentiaries, and prisons Singapore sentence death by
Sobibor extermination camp
near Lublin in Poland during
ico
Soo Sault Sainte Marie (Mich- hanging is the Singapore sen-
World War II
igan or Ontario) and their jails tence for trafficking in drugs
Soria Madrid, Spain’s great singbird(s) informant(s) Sing Sing New York State
Society for Alleviating the Mis-
eries of Public Prisons
prison Sou Southhampton, England Penitentiary at Ossining
Quaker group that planned
the Eastern State Penitentiary
or its jail
South Africa has prisons in all twice—sing sing), now
(where the birds warble
in North Philadelphia, Penn-
its principal cities, Cape known as the Ossining Cor-
sylvania; prisoners were kept
in individual cells, each with
rectional Facility
an adjacent exercise yard;
Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Pretoria, and in smaller port
Sin Lam Sin Lam Psychiatric
cities such as East London Centre for the criminally in- sane at Sin Lam in the New
prisoners were supposed to become reformed by reading
the Bible and reflecting on
and Port Elizabeth
Center in Capron, Virginia Sint Maarten (see Phillips- burg)
Territories of Hong Kong
their crimes although this sol- itary confinement drove many
Southampton Correctional
of them crazy
is used for youthful first of- fenders
Sioux Falls South Dakota pen-
Sofia capital city of Bulgaria
and nickname of its prison
South Bay Regional Center
itentiary site Sirkeci Istanbul, Turkey’s po-
sol solitary confinement
euphemistic name for San Di- ego, California’s jail in Chula
Vista Six plus One Spanish prison
lice station and lockup
Soledad California Training
South Burlington Ve r m o n t sentence of six years plus one
Facility at Soledad
site of the Chittenden Correc- day for anyone found in pos-
solitary system imprisonment
tional Facility session of or using narcotics
designed to segregate crimi-
South Carolina jails 46 coun- or drugs
nals from each other so as to
ties ranging have lockups; sizzle die in the electric chair
prolong reflection and assure
Charleston, Columbia, and sizzle seat electric chair
self-reform; many so sub-
Greenville have extra facili- Skag Skagway, Alaska, jail
jected went insane; also
ties Skopje (see Yugoslavia)
known as the Pennsylvania
System
South Carolina School for
Skowhegan Women’s Correc-
Girls at Columbia tional Center at Skowhegan,
Solomon Islands Honiara, the
South Dakota lockups 6 7 Maine
capital, has an HM Gaol-type
counties contain jails slammed jailed
prison on Guadalcanal Island
Solovetskis Solovetski Islands
South Dakota Penitentiary
slam(mer) jail or prison where
in Sioux Falls steel doors slam shut on the
Somalia capital and its prison,
both called Mogadishu
South Dakota Training
School serving juvenile of- slanguage slang language;
inmates
Somers Connecticut Correc-
fenders held in Plankinton slum language
tional Institution in Somers
Somerville Tennessee site of
Southeastern Correctional
Sleepy Hollow Trenton Prison
Center i n B r i d g ewa t e r, in New Jersey
the Wilder Youth Develop-
ment Center
Massachusetts
Sleepy Hollow Correctional
Sonderbehandlung ( G e r-
Southeastern Ohio Training
Centre in Charlottetown,
Center in Lancaster, for- Prince Edward Island
man—special treatment)—
merly the Fairfield School for Slovenia (see Yugoslavia)
term meaning killing at Nazi
concentration camps
Boys
Corrections Facilities
South Eastern Region Correc-
Texas; and Oxford, Wiscon- tion Institute J u n e a u ,
Spinhaus (German—work-
sin—the food service training Alaska
house)—old term for a house
center of the FCI (Federal Southern Michigan Southern
of correction
Correctional Institute) Michigan Prison at Jackson
spinhuiz ( D u t c h — w o r k -
house)—old term for a house
Stalag (German—prisoner-of-
Southern Nevada Correctional
war camp) Center in Jean
of correction
split bit prison sentence pro-
St Albans Correctional Facil-
Southern Ohio Correctional
ity in St Albans, Vermont Facility in Lucasville
viding for both a maximum
Stammheim Stuttgart, Ger- Southern Rhodesia (see Zim-
and a minimum sentence (see
many’s maximum-security babwe)
flat bit)
prison Southern Steel San Antonio,
Spoke Spokane, Washington
Standford Hill HM Prison at Texas firm engaged exclu-
or its jail or lockups
Standford Hill sively in the manufacture of
sponging house j a i l w h e r e
Stangebro the local prison at detention equipment
debtors were kept for a day to
Linkoping, Sweden South Lansing the South Lan-
allow them to settle their
Stanley Hong Kong’s maxi- sing School for Girls at South
debts before being impris-
mum-security prison Lansing, New York
oped or transported overseas
Stanton Thomas F Stanton South Walpole location of the
spring release from jail or
Correctional Center at Massachusetts Correctional
prison
Elmore, Alabama (see Staun- Institution, known as Cedar
Springer the New Mexico
ton) Junction
Boys School, in Springer
Stapleton Staten Island Deten- Southwark London borough
Springfield Sangamon County
tion Pens in the Stapleton sec- on the Thames infamous for
courthouse and jail in Illinois;
tion of Staten Island, New its Clink Prison for heretics;
Medical Center for Federal
York the prison is gone but the ex-
Prisoners at Springfield, Mis-
souri
Starke site of the Florida State
pression—in the clink—re- Prison mains
Spring Hill H M P r i s o n a t
star prisoner inmate believed South Windham site of the
Spring Hill in Londonderry,
Northern Ireland
susceptible to rehabilitation
Maine Correctional Center and even special treatment
Springhill Institution i n
Spain jails, penitentiaries, and START Special Treatment and
Springhill, Nova Scotia
prisons are in its capital, Rehabilitation Training (pro-
sprung released from jail on
Madrid, and cities such as Bar- gram for criminals)
bail
state chemist executioner who celona, Bilbao, Malaga,
SPSC Scottish Prison Service
Seville, Toledo, Valencia, and poisons convicts in a gas
College
Zaragoza chamber
SQP San Quentin Prison (Cal-
ifornia)
State Correctional Institution
Spandau Berlin’s great prison
squat to be electrocuted
and Correctional Diagnos-
in the Tiergarten section of
squirrel cage hospital for the
tic and Classification Cen-
ters in Pennsylvania ( s e e Spanish Guinea u s e d a s a
the city
criminally insane
Camp Hill, Graterford, and convict settlement during
src (SRC) s t r i c t - r eg i m e
Pittsburgh) Spain’s rule
(prison) camp (see Strict-Re-
gime Camp)
State Correctional Pre-Release
Spanish windlass straitjacket
Center in Tipton, Missouri (became tighter and tighter
Sri Lanka HM Gaol-type fa-
State Diagnostic Unit in Salt when sprayed with water or
cilities are in Colombo, the
Lake City, Utah soaked with the prisoner’s
capital, and in Jaffna, Kandy,
state electrician executioner sweat)
and Galle
who operates an electric chair Spartanburg South Carolina
SRW State Reformatory for
State Farm Virginia site of the site of the Northside Correc-
Women (Dwight, Illinois)
Deep Meadow, James River, tional Center and the Pied-
SSCA Southern States Correc-
and Powhatan Correctional mont Work Release Center
tional Association
Centers Spassk Soviet prison camp in
Stafford HM Prison a t
State Farm Spur Illinois pe- Kazakhstan
Stafford in Staffordshire, En-
nal institution near Vandalia SPC Service Processing Cen-
gland
Staff Training Centers t h e
State House of Correction and
ter(s)—formerly called Im-
Branch Prison in Marque- migration and Naturalization
Bureau of Prisons offers
tte, Michigan Detention Center(s)
training to correctional per-
sonnel and jailers from all
stateliest building in all Ven-
Spectator prisoner’s publica-
ice the prison of the Old Re- tion of the Michigan State
parts of the United States in
public, described in Edgar Al- Prison at Jackson
its centers in Atlanta, Geor-
gia; Aurora, Illinois; Dallas,
lan Poe tale, The Assignation
Corrections Facilities
State Penitentiary in Puerto
Sugar Land Texas site of the Rico this name applies to the
Stony Mountain Institution
maximum-security Central state penitentiary in Rio Pie-
in Winnipeg, Manitoba
Unit dras
Strafanstalt die Strafanstalt
(German—the prison)—also
Sukhanovka czarist monastery
State Prison of Southern
converted into a prison near Michigan at Jackson
called das Gefängnis
Gorki State Road Philadelphia ad-
Strafrechtler der Strafrechtler
Sumpter Sumpter Correc- dress of the Detention Center
(German—penologist)
tional Institution in Bushnell, opened as Moyamensing
straitjacket restraining device
Prison in 1835 but replaced in Florida
designed to control violent or
1963 and also the House of supreme penalty death
unruly persons such as the
Correction Surabaja (see Indonesian pris-
mentally insane or hard-to-
Stateville Stateville Correet- ons) ional Center at Joliet, Illinois
handle prisoners
Strangeways Manchester, En-
Suriname Paramáribo and
Staunton (pronounced Stan- Nickerie, Paranam, and ton) Correctional Center in
gland’s prison
Moengo have penal facilities Staunton, Virginia
strapped strapped to the elec-
tric chair; penniless
Susanville California Conser-
St Brides Correctional Cen-
vation Center at Susanville ter in Capron, Virginia
Stratford Stratford, Ontario’s
jail
Street Haven Toronto, On-
Sussex Correctional Institu-
Ste Anne des Plaines Québec
tion in Georgetown, Dela- town contains the Archam-
tario’s center for the rehabili-
ware bault institution, a maximum- security penal facility
tation of prostitutes and way-
ward girls
Suva capital city of Fiji con- tains a jail built during British
Steilacoom Washington loca-
stretch prison sentence Stretch prisoner’s periodical
colonization tion of the McNeil Island
swag prison jargon for contra- Stevenson House M i l f o r d ,
Correctional Center
published at Lansing, Michi-
band such as drugs, tools, Delaware’s facility for chil-
gan
fruit, pornography, or weapons dren from 8 to 18 years of age
stretch hemp exe c u t e b y
Swan Lake the Swan River Stevens School at Hallowell,
hanging
Youth Forest Camp southeast Louisiana
Strict-Regime Camp one of
of Kalispell, Montana stew builder jail or prison cook
36 Soviet-era prison camps in
Swan River Swan River Youth Stillwater site of the Minne-
the Urals
Forest Camp near Swan Lake, sota Correctional Facility
Stringtown Correctional Cen-
Montana stir jail; prison
ter in Stringtown, Okla-
Swansea H M P r i s o n a t stir bug prisoner whose insan-
homa
Swansea in Glamorganshire, ity seems linked to long con-
stripes striped prison clothes
Wales finement or the thought of
reintroduced for labor gangs
Swaziland Mbabane and Man- long confinement
in some U.S. prisons
zini have HM Gaol-type pe- stir crazy confinement crazy;
Stromboli one of the Lipari Is-
nal facilities maddened by imprisonment
lands off of Sicily used to ex-
S & W bracelets Smith and Stirville Ossining, New York
ile convicts and political pris-
Wesson handcuffs (site of Sing Sing)
oners
Sweden some of the most ad- St John’s capital of Newfound-
Stutthof main concentration
vanced and enlightened penal land and location of HM Pen-
camp in the north of Poland on the Bay of Gdansk
facilities are found near itentiary
Stockholm and Göteborg and St Johnsbury C o r r e c t i o n a l
St Vincent de Paul St Vincent
Malmö Facility in St Johnsbury, Ver-
de Paul Penitentiary across the Riviere des Prairies from
Swedish prisons 37 prisons, mont
Montreal, Québec in Laval
St Joseph prison in Lyons,
some, like Kumla, are within France
Styal HM Prison at Styal in
old fortresses while others, St-Martin-de-Ré French is-
Cheshire, England
like Gavle, are modern and land known for its old jail
Sudan Khartoum and cities
provide for connubial visits close to the Bay of Biscay
such as Omdurman and Port
Swift Trail Swift Trail Fed- Stockton San Joaquin County
Sudan on the Red Sea, have
eral Prison Camp in the Pi- courthouse and jail east of
HM Gaol-type penal facilities
naleno Mountains near Saf- San Francisco, California
Sudbury HM Prison at Sud-
ford, Arizona Stoke Heath HM Borstal in
bury
Swinfen Hall HM Prison at Stoke Heath, Shropshire, En-
Sugamo Tokyo prison where
Swinfen Hall in Staffordshire, gland
Japanese war criminals were
England stone dump prison
executed at the end of World
War II
swing die by hanging
Corrections Facilities
Switzerland modem penal fa-
teddy girl(s) female juvenile cilities are in or near the cap-
Tallahassee Federal Correc-
delinquent(s) in the British ital, Zürich, and in other
tional Institution at Tallahas-
Isles places such as Basel, Geneva,
see, Florida
Teguci Tegucigalpa prison in and Bern
Tamarind J a m a i c a n fa r m
the capital city of Honduras Swivels swivel nonlocking
prison
Tehachapi California Correc- handcuffs
Tamp Tampa, Florida; and
tional Institution at Tehachapi Sybil Sybil Brand Institute (Los
Tampico, Mexico jails
(state prison in the Tehachapi Angeles county jail for
Tampa Florida city has police-
Mountains close to the Mo- women)
station lockups as well as the
jave Desert) Syd S y d n ey ( N ew S o u t h
Hillsborough County jail
Teheran (see Iranian prisons) Wales, Australia) or Sydney
Tampere (see Finnish prisons)
telephone-pole design type of (Nova Scotia, Canada) or
Tampico prison in Tampico,
prison design, first introduced their jails and lockups
Mexico Tanforan racetrack near San
at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Syracuse jails in Syracuse, In-
diana, Kansas, Missouri, Ne-
Francisco used as a relocation
resembles a telephone pole
with its crossarms; cellblocks braska, New York, and Ohio
center for Japanese-Ameri-
and workshops are at right an- as well as on the island of Sic-
cans during World War II
gles to a central corridor; this ily
design provides flexibility in Syria Damacus, Aleppo, and
Tangerang boy’s prison in
layout and coordination of el- Homs have prisons built by
western Java, Indonesia
Tangier (see Morocco)
ements for control and super- vision of the inmates; the long
the Turks
Tanjong Pagar S i n g a p o r e
T-4 Tiergarten 4 (German—
connecting corridor (the tele- Zoological Park 4)—Berlin
lockup and police station on Tanjong Pagar Road
phone pole) extends from the address of Nazi medical kill-
administrative building past ing facility and its director Jo-
tank prison cell
dining rooms and shops, and sef Mengele
Tanzania Dar-es Salaam has
is bisected by cellblocks (see Tac Tacoma, Washington or its
an HM Prison built early in
Lewisburg Plan) jail or its lockups
the 20th century
Tel Mond medium-security Taconic Taconic Correctional
tap code code used by prison-
Israeli prison for juvenile of- Facility at Bedford Hills, New
ers who are not allowed to
fenders located in the Plain of York
talk to one another but man-
Sharon Taft Oklahoma location of the
age to communicate by tap-
Tennessee Colony Texas loca- Jess Dunn Correctional Cen-
ping on cell bars or plumbing
ter tion of the maximum-custody
pipes
Taft Youth Center i n Beto Unit; the Coffield Unit
Tarawa (see Kiribati)
is also here Pikeville, Tennessee
Tarbes the maximum-security
Tennessee lockups 95 counties Tafuna American Samoan
Prison de Tarbes in France
have jails; Memphis, Nash- Territorial Correctional Facil-
community containing the
Tartu Estonia city where Na-
ville, Knoxville, and Chatta- ity run by the Department of
zis killed more than 12,000 in
nooga have extra facilities Public Safety
a concentration camp origi-
Tennessee State Prison i n Tai Taipei, Taiwan jail or its
nally known as Dorpat
Nashville prison
Tasmania large island off Aus-
Tennessee Youth Center f o r Tai Lam Tai Lam Addiction
tralia, once called Van Die-
delinquents between 15 and Department Centre or Tai
men’s Land, served as a penal
18 years of age in Joelton Lam Centre for Women, both
colony from 1803 until 1853
Tepic prison in Tepic, capital at Lung Chung in the New
Taycheedah Correctional
of Nayarit, Mexico Territories of Hong Kong
Institution receiving center
Terminal Island Federal Cor- Taipei (see China, Republic
for adult females in Tay-
rectional Institution on Ter- of)
cheedah, Wisconsin
minal Island opposite San take the electric cure s u ff e r
TCA Tennessee Correctional
Pedro, California electrocution
Association; Texas Correc-
Terre Haute U.S. Penitentiary take the pipe commit suicide
tions Association
at Terre Haute, Indiana take the rap go to prison for
TDC Texas Department of
Corrections
Territorial Correctional Facil-
ity at Tafuna on Tutuila Is- take to the tules hide out in
someone else
Tecate Tecate, Baja California,
land of American Samoa the bamboo-like tall grass
jail
Territorial(s) Te r r i t o r i a l Talco Talcohuano, Chile, jail
Tecumsah Oklahoma site of
Prison(s) Talladega Federal Correc-
the Central Oklahoma Juve-
Texarkana Federal Correc- tional Institution at Talladega,
nile Treatment Center
tional Institution at Texar- Alabama
teddy boy(s) male juvenile de-
linquent(s) in the British Isles
kana, Texas
Corrections Facilities
Texas Department of Correc-
tin throne m e t a l l i c t o i l e t ; tion Units scattered about
Three Cs Federal Prison Sys-
prison-cell toilet; slop bucket this state from Angleton to
tem logotype standing for
tintureiro (Portuguese—dry Sugar Land, from Brazoria
Care, Custody, and Correc-
cleaner)—Brazilian term for and Brownwood to Rosharon
tion
a prison van and Tennessee Colony;
three deuces jammed t h r e e
Tipitapa maximum-security Huntsville has the most penal
concurrent two-year sen-
prison outside Managua, Nic- facilities
tences
aragua Texas jails 254 counties con-
Three Strikes third felony con-
Tipton Missouri site of the tain lockups; cities such as
viction leads to life term in
State Correctional Pre-Re- Houston, Dallas, and San An-
prison—(also known as Three
lease Center tonio have local lockups
Strikes and You’re Out law)
Tiptonville Tennessee site of Thailand Bangkok; prison
three deuces running wild
the Lake County Regional seems almost as old as the
three consecutive two-year
Correctional Facility land it occupies
sentences
Tirana prison in the capital of thana (Anglo-Indian—police
three-time loser p e r s o n r e -
Albania station)—lockup; (Hin-
turning to prison for the third
Tj Tijuana, Baja California, dustani—jail)
time
México, jail THC Toledo House of Correc-
throwaway juvenile delin-
Tjipinang maximum-security tion (Ohio)
quent or young adult criminal
prison near Djakarta on the theater of terror any public
living in the same city as his
Indonesian island of Java execution or punishment
or her parents but out of their
Tjirebon major prison in west- The Castle U.S. Disciplinary
care or control
ern Java in Indonesia Barracks at Fort Leaven-
thumbs thumbcuffs for con-
Tlaxcala prison in Tlaxcala, worth, Kansas
trolling and holding unruly
Mexico The Gambia (see Gambian
prisoners being transported
from place to place
prisons)
TI Terminal Island; Federal
TM Therapia Magna (Latin— Great Therapy)—euphe-
The Pas Correctional Institu-
mism invented by Nazi doc- tion for Women at The Pas,
Correctional Institution at
tors in concentration camps Manitoba
Terminal Island, California in
Los Angeles harbor ticket-of-leave permit allow-
where they participated in
therapeutic correctional com-
munity prison
ing a convict to leave prison
mass killings
TO Toledo, Ohio, jail or its Theresienstadt Nazi concen-
lockups tration camp about 40 miles (60 kilometers) from Prague;
before the expiration of the
Toamasina (see Madagascar’s prisons) the Czechs called it Terezin
sentence and to work under
certain restrictions; parole
Tobago (see Trinidad) The Rock Otay Mesa Prison
certificate ticket-of-leave man parolee
Toco Tocopilla, Chile, jail south of San Diego, also
Tidewater Correctional Unit
Tocuyito nickname of the cen- known as Rock Mountain
in Chesapeake, Virginia
tral penitentiary of Valencia in The Verne HM Prison at The
Tihar central jail in New
the Ejido Carabobo of Vene- Verne in Dorset, England
Delhi, India
zuela The Walls Huntsville Unit in
Tijuana Tijuana, Baja Califor-
Togo Lomé is its capital and its Texas State Prison
prison is primitive Thieves’ Palace nickname for
nia Norte, jail
Tijuana Hilton nickname of
toil factory prison workshop the Surrey Prison
San Diego’s multistory, Met-
Tokyo (see Japan’s prisons) Thimphu Bhutan prison in the
ropolitan Correctional Center
tolbooth (Scottish—prison) Himalayan mountains
Tillberga Swedish prison in
Toledo (see Spain, TO) Third Street New Jersey State
Tillberga, west of Stockholm
Toluca p r i s o n i n To l u c a , Prison in Trenton on Third
Tillery North Carolina site of
Mexico Street
the Caledonia and Odom
tombas (Spanish—tombs)— Thomas Saint Thomas, Amer-
Complex
solitary confinement cells ican Virgin Islands, jail built
time off time off for good be-
havior (while imprisoned)
Tombs old New York City
Prison in downtown Manhat- Thomaston site of the Maine
a century ago by the Danes
time out time out of sight (in a
tan adjacent to the Criminal State Prison
solitary-confinement cell)
Court Building on the Lower Thorn Nazi concentration
time served total time spent in
East Side camp in Poland where it was
confinement before and after
Tombs Prison M a n h a t t a n ’s known as Torun
sentencing
House of Detention Thorp Arch HM Prison at
Tinseltown Hollywood, Cali-
Tomoka Tomoka Correctional Thorp Arch, Yorkshire, En-
fornia, police-station lockup
Institution (see Daytona gland
as well as the nearby Los An-
geles County Jail
Beach)
Corrections Facilities
’Tona Daytona Beach, Florida,
Trenton Florida site of the jail
Townsville H M P r i s o n a t
Lancaster Correctional Cen- Tonga an HM Gaol was built
Townsville (Queensland,
ter; site of the New Jersey in the capital of Nuko’alofa
Australia)
State Prison and the Training Tong Fuk Tong Fuk Detention
Tracy medium-security prison
School for Girls, as well as Centre, Lantau Island, New
at Tracy, California, officially
the Jones Farm at West Tren- Territories, Hong Kong
known as the Deuel Voca-
ton, the St Francis Hospital Toodyay an old gaol in West-
tional Institute
Unit, and the Vroom Read- ern Australia, now historical
Training Center for Youth in
justment Unit in the Trenton museum
Columbus, Ohio for males
Psychiatric Hospital Topaz relocation center for
from 12 to 17 years of age
Tres Marias (Spanish—Three Japanese-Americans interned
Training School for Boys i n
Marys)—Mexican penal set- in central Utah
Boonville, Missouri (see
tlement in the Pacific Ocean Topeka location of the Kansas
Boonville)
off Nayarit; prisoners are kept State Reception and Diagnos-
Training School for Boys and
on Maria Madre Island tic Center as well as the Kan-
Girls at Jamesburg, New
Trinidad and Tobago in Port- sas Correctional-Vocational
Jersey
of-Spain, Trinidad, an HM Training Center and the Youth
Training School for Girls
Prison recalls the years of Center in Topeka
Trenton, New Jersey’s correc-
British rule from 1802 to Topenish Japanese-American
tional facility for delinquents
1976 relocation center near
from 8 to 17 years of age
Tripoli ( s e e Lebanon and Yakima, Washington
training school(s) juvenile de-
Libya) Topo Topolobambo, Mexico,
linquent institution(s)
Trondheim (see Norway) jail
Traitors’ Gate Thames River
Tropez S t Tr o p e z o n t h e Toponym place-name prisoners
waterside gateway to the
French Riviera or its jail use when telling where they
Tower of London, where pris-
Trostyanets site of a Nazi con- were imprisoned; for exam-
oners were rowed in before
centration camp near Minsk ple, Atlanta usually means the
being executed or serving
Troy New York State city north federal penitentiary in At-
long terms
of Albany; seat of Rensselaer lanta, Georgia just as Trenton
tramp college nickname for
County and its jail may be the New Jersey state
county jail
Trubetskoi bastion of the Pe- prison there or even the Train-
Trani Italian prison near Bari
ter and Paul Fortress, used as ing School for (delinquent)
on the Adriatic
a prison in Leningrad Girls at Trenton
Transfrisker electronically
Trucial Sheikdoms ( s e e Toronto the Don Jail and the
actuated hand-held no-touch
United Arab Emirates) Mimico Correctional Centre
personal-weapons-search de-
Trujillo Cárcel Nacional de are well-known penal facili-
vice made by Federal Labora-
Trujillo (Spanish—National ties
tories of Saltsburg, Pennsyl-
Prison of Trujillo, Venezuela) torture chamber jail or prison
vania
Truk prison camp erected by where drugs are not available
Transnistria Romanian-Nazi
the Japanese during World at any price
administrative region be-
War II in the Caroline Islands total segregation solitary con-
tween the Bug and the Dni-
Truro the Nova Scotia School finement
ester rivers in the Soviet
for Girls at Truro Toulon French seaport known
Ukraine where during World
trusty trustworthy convict who as a depot for convicts await-
War II thousands of exiled
is allowed special privileges ing passage to the penal col-
Romanian Jews were relo-
TRY Teens for Retarded Youth onies of Algeria, French Gui-
cated
(juvenile correctional pro- ana, and New Caledonia
transportation movement of
gram) Touquet Le Touquet, France,
prisoners to overseas penal
T-town Tijuana, Baja Califor- jail
colonies
nia, Mexico, jail Tower (see Tower of London)
Trautenau forced-labor sub-
tuchthuiz (Dutch—house of Tower of London ancient for-
camp in western Czechoslo-
correction; workhouse) tress on the River Thames
vakia during World War II
Tucker Tucker Unit in Tucker, used as a royal residence, then
Treasure Island first brig for
women sailors at the U.S.
Arkansas
Tucson site of Arizona Correc- who often entered by the Trai-
a jail for political prisoners
Navy base at Treasure Island
tional Training Facility where tors Gate before being be-
in San Francisco Bay
academic and vocational headed; today it is an arsenal
Treblinka Nazi concentration
training is offered; Catalina museum housing the crown
camp in Poland
Mountain School with a treat- jewels as well as ancient ar-
trembler prisoner afraid of
ment program for juvenile mor and many weapons; also
other prisoners
males; Pima County seat and called the Bloody Tower
Trenggalek one of Indonesia’s
newer prisons in eastern Java
jail
Corrections Facilities
Tule Lake waterless reloca-
British Isles and there are tion and segregation center of
Hyde Park, three miles from
many remnants in former col- northern California where
Newgate Jail in the City of
onies and protectorates many Japanese-Americans
London
United Prisoners Union r ev - were interned after Pearl Har-
UCA Utah Correctional Asso-
olutionary underground orga- bor
ciation
nization of hard-core convicts Tullahoma Tennessee site of
Udine Italian prison northeast
in prisons such as San Quen- the Highland Rim School for
of Venice
tin or Soledad Girls
ufac unlawful flight to avoid
universal staircase nickname Tulle m a x i m u m - s e c u r i t y
confinement
for the treadmill once oper- prison on Rue Souhan in
Uganda the capital city, Kam-
ated by felons Tulle, France
pala, has an old HM Prison as
Unterlüss Nazi subcamp close Tulsa Tu l s a , O k l a h o m a ,
well as local lockups
to Bergen-Belsen near Han- County Jail
ugly customer d a n g e r o u s l y
nover, Germany Tulungagung I n d o n e s i a n
quarrelsome person
Up Changi Road Singapore’s prison in eastern Java
UK United Kingdom (Great
Prison Headquarters at Kilo- Tunis (see Tunisia)
Britain, Northern Ireland, and
meter 17 outside the city, Tunisia cities, including the
overseas colonies and territo-
nicknamed for the road on capital of Tunis, have French-
ries)—or their penal facilities
Ulan Bator (see Mongolia) which it is located colonial jails and prisons