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The Eastern State Penitentiary (ESP) is a former American prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [6] It is located in the Fairmount section of the city, and was operational from 1829 until 1971. The penitentiary refined the revolutionary system of separate incarceration, first pioneered at the Walnut Street Jail, which emphasized principles of ...
Holmesburg Prison, given the nickname "The Terrordome," [1] was a prison operated by the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Department of Prisons (PDP) from 1896 to 1995. The facility is located at 8215 Torresdale Avenue in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia. It was decommissioned in 1995 when it closed.
Opened. 1929. Closed. 2018. Managed by. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. The State Correctional Institution – Graterford, commonly referred to as SCI Graterford, known prior as Eastern Correctional Institution, Graterford Prison, Graterford Penitentiary, and the Graterford Prison Farm, was a Pennsylvania Department of Corrections ...
Blanche Carney, head of Philadelphia's Department of Prisons, has announced she is retiring after eight years as commissioner and 28 years with the department.
Walnut Street Jail. Walnut Street Prison was a city jail and penitentiary house in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1790 to 1838. Legislation calling for establishment of the jail was passed in 1773 to relieve overcrowding in the High Street Jail; the first prisoners were admitted in 1776. [1] It was located at Sixth and Walnut Streets, where ...
Houtzdale, Pennsylvania. State Correctional Institution – Mahanoy. Frackville, Pennsylvania. State Correctional Institution – Rockview. Benner Township, Pennsylvania. Begun in 1912 and opened in 1915 was originally planned to replace Eastern and Western Penitentiaries. State Correctional Institution – Somerset.
The California Correctional Center in Susanville, shown in 2021, was one of three prisons Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved for closure. It closed last year. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) For ...
The Philadelphia House of Correction is one of five local prisons operated by the Philadelphia Prison System. It is located at 8001 State Road in the Holmesburg neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia. The facility was built in 1874 and rebuilt in 1927. Originally it was designed to the same pattern as the now-disused Eastern State Penitentiary ...