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