Prison

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A prison or penitentiary or jail (in British English, sometimes spelt gaol) is a building or system used to hold persons convicted of crimes. Many private companies in the prison industry provide services to prisons. In the US they are organized in the American Correctional Association. Their lobbying arm is ALEC which advocates legislation favorable to the industry. The practice of undergoing punishment via a prison sentence, is colloquially expressed as: "doin' time".

Prisons are exclusively for male or female prisoners, or there are separate departments for each sex.

Contents 1 List of Prisons 2 List of Prison Corporations 3 Further Reading 3.1 References

List of Prisons

• Alcatraz, San Francisco Bay, California, USA.
• The Bastille, Paris
• Belmarsh Prison
• Butyrka prison Moscow
• [[Ch�teau d'If]], Marseille, France
• Dartmoor Prison
• Devil's Island, France
• Holloway Prison
• Kilmainham Jail, Dublin, Ireland
• Kingston Pentientiary, Canada
• Lancaster County Prison
• Lubyianka Moscow
• Marshalsea
• HM Prison Maze (also called Long Kesh)
• Newgate Prison
• Pentonville Prison, Isle of Wight
• [[La Sant� Prison]], Paris, France
• Sing Sing
• Spandau Prison (demolished; had only one prisoner during the last 11 years))
• Vacaville Prison
• Wormwood Scrubs
• Joliet Prison, Joliet, Illinois

List of Prison Corporations

• Premier
• Wackenhut Corrections Corporation (WCC)

See also: private prisons United States prison population, United Kingdom prison population

Further Reading

• Ted Conove, Newjack: Guardian Sing Sing, Knopf, 2001, trade paperback, 352 pages, ISBN 0375726624
• Mark L. Taylor, The Executed God: The Way of the Cross in Lockdown America, Augsburg Fortress Publishers, Publishing House of The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 2001, ISBN 0800632834.

References

• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Prison" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison August 28, 2003