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[3] [4] From 2006 - 2015, the prison housed prisoners from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as part of an effort to relieve California prison overcrowding. [5] [6] After a year of closure starting in 2015, the facility was reopened under lease and has been operated by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. [7]
The prison officially opened in 1880 with a capacity of 1,800 inmates. They spent most of their time in the dark, behind solid boiler plate doors in stone cells measuring 4 by 8 ft (1.2 by 2.4 m) with 6-inch (15 cm) eye slots. Air holes were drilled into the cell doors in the 1940s, [7] and the cell doors are still in use today.
The Broad River Correctional Institution (BRCI) is a South Carolina Department of Corrections state prison for men located in Columbia, South Carolina. [1] South Carolina's execution chamber is located in Broad River. [2] The adjacent Kirkland Correctional Institution lies just to its south side. The prison opened in 1988. [1]
Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation & Reentry; Arkansas Department of Correction; California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation; Colorado Department of Corrections; Connecticut Department of Correction; Delaware Department of Correction; District of Columbia Department of Corrections; Florida Department of Corrections
Illinois Department of Corrections Pinckneyville Correctional Center is a medium disciplinary-security Illinois state prison located in the town of Pinckneyville in Perry County . Pinckneyville first opened its doors in 1998, the facility consists of five general population housing units.
Mohawk Correctional Facility is a prison for men in Rome, Oneida County, New York, US, owned and operated by the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. The facility is classified as medium security but also has a maximum security medical unit and a special housing unit. Mohawk first opened in 1988.
Pontiac Correctional Center, established in June 1871, is an Illinois Department of Corrections maximum security prison (Level 1) for adult males in Pontiac, Illinois.The prison also has a medium security unit that houses medium to minimum security inmates and is classified as Level 3.
The facility is a secure, minimum custody private prison under contract with the Arizona Department of Corrections to provide custody and substance abuse treatment for 550 adult male offenders who have demonstrated a need for substance or alcohol abuse intervention. The facility opened on October 7, 1994.